Michael Chasukwa
Biographic Data
| ID | 150774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Chasukwa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Chasukwa |
| SIGNATURE | CHASUKWA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malawi |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4819-7028 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Role of Participatory Translation in Improving Communication and Engagement at the Local Level in NGO Projects
The study explores whether participatory translation can enhance linguistic inclusion in NGO development work. In Malawi, community members co-produced a bilingual glossary of development terms through a novel participatory process designed to create culturally resonant translations. Employing contribution analysis, the study evaluates the glossary’s impact on project delivery through focus groups and surveys across treatment and control sites. F…
Participatory translation and anti‐racism in NGO development work
Interrogating the quality and completion of mortality mobile phone interviews conducted in Malawi during Covid-19
BACKGROUNDMobile phone surveys (MPSs) have gained traction as a tool for gathering survey data, especially following the emergency of COVID-19.However, our understanding of MPS data quality in contexts with limited mobile phone penetration is still modest. OBJECTIVEThis study evaluates (1) the circumstances under which mobile phone survey interviews were conducted and how these might influence the completion and quality of interviews, and (2) whe…
Defiance Within Compliance
Assessing the relationship between digital divide and citizens’ political participation in Africa
The proliferation of access to digital technology has raised remarkable interest regarding its various effects on everyday life, with recent studies largely focusing on financial inclusion. This study examined the influence of digital inequalities on political participation in Africa’s nascent democracies using the sixth wave of Afrobarometer data covering 36 countries and involving 49 896 respondents. The descriptive analysis shows that nearly 7…
Identity Entrepreneurs and Cultural Framers in Contemporary Ethnic Identity Mobilisation in Malawi
After the re-introduction of multiparty system of governance in Malawi in 1993, ethnic associations have become popular for mobilising and re-asserting identity. Some of the most notable ethnic associations are Chewa Heritage Foundation, Mulhakho wa Alhomwe, and Mzimba Heritage Association. These associations mainly claim that their establishment is mainly to promote and preserve their culture while some go further to add that they also aim at fa…
Collecting mortality data via mobile phone surveys
Despite the urgent need for timely mortality data in low-income and lower-middle-income countries, mobile phone surveys rarely include questions about recent deaths. Such questions might a) be too sensitive, b) take too long to ask and/or c) generate unreliable data. We assessed the feasibility of mortality data collection using mobile phone surveys in Malawi. We conducted a non-inferiority trial among a random sample of mobile phone users. Parti…
Malawi’s Post-Independence Foreign Policy and Its Influence on Development Options
This paper analyses the causes, processes and systemic factors that have been central to Malawi’s post-independence foreign policy and its implications for national development policy options between 1964 and 1993. The paper argues that Malawi’s post-independence foreign policy and development direction were mainly adopted in reaction to the failure of Kamuzu Banda (the first president of Malawi) to win international support (at an Organisation o…
The State, Traditional Leadership and the Politics of Land Reforms in Malawi
This paper discusses the political power dynamics over land between the state and traditional leadership in relation to issues surrounding the Malawi new land laws of 2016 (i.e., land reforms). The passing of new land bills in parliament represented one of the most contentious political issues in the country between the state and traditional leadership. From a political perspective, the paper takes this disagreement over land policy between tradi…
Neither sustainable nor inclusive
The food crisis of 2007/8, alongside rapid population growth, and the uncertainties of climate change propelled African agricultural transformation back into the development mainstream. New narratives of ‘climate-smart agriculture’ and ‘sustainable intensification’ underlie this contemporary transformation. We present a political economy analysis of agricultural policy and livelihoods in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, and use this to assess the cha…
Institutional reproduction, contradiction and legitimacy crisis
This paper examines the politics and dynamics of the policy design and practical policy implementation realities of institutional transformation in a developing country context. The paper finds that there has been a mismatch between policy design templates of institutional transformation and the actual practice in terms of transformational implementation outcomes. Taking decentralisation reforms within the Ministry of Health in Malawi as a case s…
Multiple Faces of Democrats
Matters of satisfaction with and support for democracy have been at the centre of discussion regarding the survival and quality of democracy in Africa since the early 1990s. While the dominant discourse claims that support for democracy keeps on increasing with time, African countries have somewhat deviated from this path. Thus, African countries have had decreasing levels of satisfaction with democracy and support for democracy since the third d…
Bypassing Government
Many practical and action-oriented international roadmaps to improve the quality of aid and its delivery and impact on development—including the Paris Declaration, Accra Agenda for Action, and Busan Partnership—emphasize a more active involvement of domestic institutions and procedures. Despite widespread agreement among both donor and recipient countries on this issue, we find that aid often tends to bypass national institutional structures. Thi…
Narratives, climate change and agricultural policy processes in Malawi
This paper focuses on interplay among narratives, climate change and agriculture policy processes in Malawi. The paper analyses emerging policy narratives about climate change and agriculture that are stimulating, shaping and influencing these debates. The motivation for this paper draws from an increasing number of government and non-government actors involved in climate change debates on agriculture with different starting points, narratives an…
Agricultural Policy, Employment Opportunities and Social Mobility in Rural Malawi
Despite the youth accounting for more than half of the population of Malawi, they have been marginalized and pushed to the periphery of several development policy interventions. This article interrogates the question of how the youth and policy-makers view agricultural development as a means of social mobility for youth in Malawi. The paper argues that even though agricultural production is the main occupation in Malawi, young people do not value…
Africa's Land Rush
Holding the brains back in
Migration studies especially in developing countries have fallen short of analysing the impacts of the mitigating variables. This paper therefore fills the lacuna by analysing measures against brain drain in the Malawian health sector. Migration of health workers has been affecting health service delivery in the country. However, although some measures to curb brain drain or minimize its impacts have been implemented, little is known about their …
Public Participation in Local Councils in Malawi in the Absence of Local Elected Representatives-Political Eliticism or Pluralism
The paper discusses participation of the public in local councils in Malawi in the context that Malawi has had no councillors since 2005. The paper is based on empirical evidence collected through a largely qualitative research design. It adopts a case study approach focusing on Lilongwe District Council and Balaka Town Council. The study has established that the absence of councillors in Malawi has negatively affected the participation of the pu…
The Political Economy of Land Grabs in Malawi
Youth, Agriculture and Land Grabs in Malawi
Malawi has received international media attention as a potential model for a uniquely African green revolution following the success of its fertiliser subsidy programme. The role of young people has not featured at all in this success story, although more than half of the population is considered young. Meanwhile, the government's Green Belt Initiative is planning to give land to large?scale local and foreign investors for irrigated agriculture a…
The Political Economy of Land Grabs in Malawi
Youth, Agriculture and Land Grabs in Malawi
Malawi has received international media attention as a potential model for a uniquely African green revolution following the success of its fertiliser subsidy programme. The role of young people has not featured at all in this success story, although more than half of the population is considered young. Meanwhile, the government's Green Belt Initiative is planning to give land to large?scale local and foreign investors for irrigated agriculture a…
Bypassing Government
Many practical and action-oriented international roadmaps to improve the quality of aid and its delivery and impact on development—including the Paris Declaration, Accra Agenda for Action, and Busan Partnership—emphasize a more active involvement of domestic institutions and procedures. Despite widespread agreement among both donor and recipient countries on this issue, we find that aid often tends to bypass national institutional structures. Thi…
Public Participation in Local Councils in Malawi in the Absence of Local Elected Representatives-Political Eliticism or Pluralism
The paper discusses participation of the public in local councils in Malawi in the context that Malawi has had no councillors since 2005. The paper is based on empirical evidence collected through a largely qualitative research design. It adopts a case study approach focusing on Lilongwe District Council and Balaka Town Council. The study has established that the absence of councillors in Malawi has negatively affected the participation of the pu…
Neither sustainable nor inclusive
The food crisis of 2007/8, alongside rapid population growth, and the uncertainties of climate change propelled African agricultural transformation back into the development mainstream. New narratives of ‘climate-smart agriculture’ and ‘sustainable intensification’ underlie this contemporary transformation. We present a political economy analysis of agricultural policy and livelihoods in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, and use this to assess the cha…
Agricultural Policy, Employment Opportunities and Social Mobility in Rural Malawi
Despite the youth accounting for more than half of the population of Malawi, they have been marginalized and pushed to the periphery of several development policy interventions. This article interrogates the question of how the youth and policy-makers view agricultural development as a means of social mobility for youth in Malawi. The paper argues that even though agricultural production is the main occupation in Malawi, young people do not value…
Youth, Agriculture and Land Grabs in Malawi
Malawi has received international media attention as a potential model for a uniquely African green revolution following the success of its fertiliser subsidy programme. The role of young people has not featured at all in this success story, although more than half of the population is considered young. Meanwhile, the government's Green Belt Initiative is planning to give land to large?scale local and foreign investors for irrigated agriculture a…
The Political Economy of Land Grabs in Malawi
Public Participation in Local Councils in Malawi in the Absence of Local Elected Representatives-Political Eliticism or Pluralism
The paper discusses participation of the public in local councils in Malawi in the context that Malawi has had no councillors since 2005. The paper is based on empirical evidence collected through a largely qualitative research design. It adopts a case study approach focusing on Lilongwe District Council and Balaka Town Council. The study has established that the absence of councillors in Malawi has negatively affected the participation of the pu…
Africa's Land Rush
Holding the brains back in
Migration studies especially in developing countries have fallen short of analysing the impacts of the mitigating variables. This paper therefore fills the lacuna by analysing measures against brain drain in the Malawian health sector. Migration of health workers has been affecting health service delivery in the country. However, although some measures to curb brain drain or minimize its impacts have been implemented, little is known about their …
Narratives, climate change and agricultural policy processes in Malawi
This paper focuses on interplay among narratives, climate change and agriculture policy processes in Malawi. The paper analyses emerging policy narratives about climate change and agriculture that are stimulating, shaping and influencing these debates. The motivation for this paper draws from an increasing number of government and non-government actors involved in climate change debates on agriculture with different starting points, narratives an…
Agricultural Policy, Employment Opportunities and Social Mobility in Rural Malawi
Despite the youth accounting for more than half of the population of Malawi, they have been marginalized and pushed to the periphery of several development policy interventions. This article interrogates the question of how the youth and policy-makers view agricultural development as a means of social mobility for youth in Malawi. The paper argues that even though agricultural production is the main occupation in Malawi, young people do not value…
Multiple Faces of Democrats
Matters of satisfaction with and support for democracy have been at the centre of discussion regarding the survival and quality of democracy in Africa since the early 1990s. While the dominant discourse claims that support for democracy keeps on increasing with time, African countries have somewhat deviated from this path. Thus, African countries have had decreasing levels of satisfaction with democracy and support for democracy since the third d…
Bypassing Government
Many practical and action-oriented international roadmaps to improve the quality of aid and its delivery and impact on development—including the Paris Declaration, Accra Agenda for Action, and Busan Partnership—emphasize a more active involvement of domestic institutions and procedures. Despite widespread agreement among both donor and recipient countries on this issue, we find that aid often tends to bypass national institutional structures. Thi…
Institutional reproduction, contradiction and legitimacy crisis
This paper examines the politics and dynamics of the policy design and practical policy implementation realities of institutional transformation in a developing country context. The paper finds that there has been a mismatch between policy design templates of institutional transformation and the actual practice in terms of transformational implementation outcomes. Taking decentralisation reforms within the Ministry of Health in Malawi as a case s…
The State, Traditional Leadership and the Politics of Land Reforms in Malawi
This paper discusses the political power dynamics over land between the state and traditional leadership in relation to issues surrounding the Malawi new land laws of 2016 (i.e., land reforms). The passing of new land bills in parliament represented one of the most contentious political issues in the country between the state and traditional leadership. From a political perspective, the paper takes this disagreement over land policy between tradi…
Neither sustainable nor inclusive
The food crisis of 2007/8, alongside rapid population growth, and the uncertainties of climate change propelled African agricultural transformation back into the development mainstream. New narratives of ‘climate-smart agriculture’ and ‘sustainable intensification’ underlie this contemporary transformation. We present a political economy analysis of agricultural policy and livelihoods in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, and use this to assess the cha…
Collecting mortality data via mobile phone surveys
Despite the urgent need for timely mortality data in low-income and lower-middle-income countries, mobile phone surveys rarely include questions about recent deaths. Such questions might a) be too sensitive, b) take too long to ask and/or c) generate unreliable data. We assessed the feasibility of mortality data collection using mobile phone surveys in Malawi. We conducted a non-inferiority trial among a random sample of mobile phone users. Parti…
Malawi’s Post-Independence Foreign Policy and Its Influence on Development Options
This paper analyses the causes, processes and systemic factors that have been central to Malawi’s post-independence foreign policy and its implications for national development policy options between 1964 and 1993. The paper argues that Malawi’s post-independence foreign policy and development direction were mainly adopted in reaction to the failure of Kamuzu Banda (the first president of Malawi) to win international support (at an Organisation o…
Assessing the relationship between digital divide and citizens’ political participation in Africa
The proliferation of access to digital technology has raised remarkable interest regarding its various effects on everyday life, with recent studies largely focusing on financial inclusion. This study examined the influence of digital inequalities on political participation in Africa’s nascent democracies using the sixth wave of Afrobarometer data covering 36 countries and involving 49 896 respondents. The descriptive analysis shows that nearly 7…
Identity Entrepreneurs and Cultural Framers in Contemporary Ethnic Identity Mobilisation in Malawi
After the re-introduction of multiparty system of governance in Malawi in 1993, ethnic associations have become popular for mobilising and re-asserting identity. Some of the most notable ethnic associations are Chewa Heritage Foundation, Mulhakho wa Alhomwe, and Mzimba Heritage Association. These associations mainly claim that their establishment is mainly to promote and preserve their culture while some go further to add that they also aim at fa…
Participatory translation and anti‐racism in NGO development work
Interrogating the quality and completion of mortality mobile phone interviews conducted in Malawi during Covid-19
BACKGROUNDMobile phone surveys (MPSs) have gained traction as a tool for gathering survey data, especially following the emergency of COVID-19.However, our understanding of MPS data quality in contexts with limited mobile phone penetration is still modest. OBJECTIVEThis study evaluates (1) the circumstances under which mobile phone survey interviews were conducted and how these might influence the completion and quality of interviews, and (2) whe…
Defiance Within Compliance
The Role of Participatory Translation in Improving Communication and Engagement at the Local Level in NGO Projects
The study explores whether participatory translation can enhance linguistic inclusion in NGO development work. In Malawi, community members co-produced a bilingual glossary of development terms through a novel participatory process designed to create culturally resonant translations. Employing contribution analysis, the study evaluates the glossary’s impact on project delivery through focus groups and surveys across treatment and control sites. F…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works)