John Lwanda

Biographic Data

ID146497
NAMEJohn Lwanda
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMELwanda
SIGNATURELWANDA J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Glasgow
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS16
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • “I see salt everywhere”: A qualitative examination of the utility of arts-based participatory workshops to study noncommunicable diseases in Tanzania and Malawi

    Open AccessMaria Bissett, Cindy M Gray et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) including hypertension, diabetes, and cancer, is rising in Sub-Saharan African countries like Tanzania and Malawi. This increase reflects complex interactions between diverse social, environmental, biological, and political factors. To intervene successfully, new approaches are therefore needed to understand how local knowledges and attitudes towards common NCDs influence health behaviours. This study…

  • Arts-based approaches to promoting health in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review

    Open AccessChristopher Bunn, Chisomo Kalinga et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: Arts-based approaches to health promotion have been used widely across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), particularly in public health responses to HIV/AIDS. Such approaches draw on deep-rooted historical traditions of indigenous groups in combination with imported traditions which emerged from colonial engagement. To date, no review has sought to map the locations, health issues, art forms and methods documented by researchers using arts-b…

  • Gender, Gays and Gain: The Sexualised Politics of Donor Aid in Malawi

    Open AccessEmmie Chanika, John Lwanda et al.ARTICLEAfrica Spectrum2013Cited by: 5References: 14

    Many Malawian politicians have exploited religious and cultural discourses, encouraging the discourse of the 'God-fearing Malawi nation' while also acknowledging the country as a secular state. This discourse -which most recently underwent further development in the early 1980s when Christians and Muslims, funded by donor money, accelerated their evangelical drives in the context of a one-party Malawi - resonates with a patriarchal, conservative …

  • Music advocacy, the media and the Malawi political public sphere, 19582007

    John LwandaARTICLEJournal of African Media Studies2009

    Journalists and writers in Malawi were crucial in the resistance to Dr Banda's hegemony between 1964 and 1993. The contested terrain was orality. This paper concentrates on the role of musicians and asserts that musicians in Malawi were, and arguably are, much braver and more persistent political critics and social change advocates than their counterparts in print journalism. While journalists censored themselves, and were censored, oral practiti…

  • Poets, culture and orature: A reappraisal of the Malawi political public sphere, 1953–2006

    John LwandaARTICLEJournal of Contemporary African…2008References: 15

    Mapanje and Mphande make a persuasive case for the significant role of literature in challenging Dr Banda's one-party hegemony. The contested terrain, as Mphande notes, was orality, the dominant medium in Malawi where literacy levels are low. It has been assumed, though, that orature did little to challenge Banda's hegemony. I argue that far from being silent, the popular musicians and dramatists (as orature) were much braver than the writers. Wh…

  • Kwacha: The Violence of Money in Malawi's Politics, 1954-2004

    John LwandaARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2006Cited by: 7

    One of the strongest limiting factors in the transition to participatory democracy in Malawi is the failure of independent and sustainable cadres of young politicians to emerge. This is caused by the role that money, generated via the informal economy, plays in Malawian politics. This money is channelled into politics via achikulire (neo-patrimonial patrons or ‘big men’), usually without party accountability. This factor may be more critical in r…

  • Service of the Engine: Pharmaceuticals, Moralities, and Sex in a Malawian Fishing Village

    John Lwanda, Birgitte BruunARTICLEAfrica2004

    Birgitte Bruun, Service of the Engine: pharmaceuticals, moralities, and sex in a Malawian fishing village. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers (paperback €13.00, ISBN 90 5260 083 X). 2002, 96 pp. - Volume 74 Issue 3

  • The [in]visibility of HIV/Aids in the Malawi public sphere

    John LwandaARTICLEAfrican Journal of AIDS Research2003

    This paper argues that, far from being invisible, issues of sexuality are omnipresent in the African public sphere. However, this presence is not usually found in the medical nor overtly gender/sexual arenas but in general social contexts. Western derived research models have sought and continue to seek to situate gender and sexual discourse in overt forms, especially when emphasising public health aspects. Using qualitative and quantitative evid…

  • Feeding Families: African Realities and British Ideas of Nutrition and Development in Early Colonial Africa

    John Lwanda, Cynthia BrantleyARTICLEAfrica2003Cited by: 2

  • Mother's songs: Male appropriation of women's music in Malawi and Southern Africa

    John LwandaARTICLEJournal of African Cultural Studies2003Cited by: 2References: 7

    This study, informed by historical and socio-cultural studies into HIV/AIDS, examines the political and commercial appropriation of female music by males specifically in Malawi and, in general, Southern Africa.1 Once appropriated, this music is often used, via the oral public sphere, in ways that, politically and economically, impact negatively on women. It is here argued that while recognized factors perpetuating gender inequalities are responsi…