Bryson G Nkhoma
Biographic Data
| ID | 1744053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryson G Nkhoma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryson G |
| FAMILY NAME | Nkhoma |
| SIGNATURE | NKHOMA B G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7449-6959 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Toward an Optimum Yield: Science, Technology, and Fisheries Development in Lake Malawi, 1930–1964
In the late colonial period, fisheries science and colonial development programs converged in blueprints to better exploit marine resources throughout the British empire. Yet, the historiography of science and colonial development has focused predominantly on the management and exploitation of terrestrial resources with only limited investigation of parallel schemes focused on marine and freshwater resources. Centering on the final decades of the…
Fishing (in) the past to inform the future: Lessons from the histories of fisheries management in Lake Malawi and Mbenji Island
Without historical interrogation of past and present fisheries management, governors and their sponsors often fall into the trap of replicating and reproducing failed approaches. Even when aimed at community empowerment, a lack of historical awareness can lead to underappreciation of the institutional, economic, and socio-ecological contexts that resource users navigate. In this article, we explore the history of fisheries management in Lake Mala…
Change without transformation: Experiences with the implementation of agricultural extension delivery policy in Malawi, 2000–2020
Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi
This piece explores the parallel development of two fisheries management regimes in mid-twentieth-century Lake Malawi: one imposed by the British colonial government over the lake and the other by Senior Chief Makanjira focused on Mbenji Island. The parallel development of these regimes provides opportunity for close analysis of how fisheries management centred on different knowledge and practices led to distinctive legacies of governance legitim…
Much effort, little impact: The politics of public microcredit programs in Malawi
This paper contributes to locating the Malawian dynamics into an emerging discourse that argues that current microcredit programs are ineffective because they have become an instrument for serving international and domestic actors’ interests. It aims to analyze key actors’ interests in public microcredit programs in Malawi. Using a qualitative research design, we draw on 16 key informants, representing 13 national actor institutions that hold sta…
State Power, Dilemmas and African Agency: Peasant Food Production and the Making of the Colonial State in Malawi, 1883-1961
No Maize, No Life: Conservation, Maize Production, and African Responses in Colonial Southern Malawi, 1920–1960
This study explores the history of maize production to demonstrate the extent to which colonial conservation interspersed with economic expediency stifled African production from 1920 to 1960. Drawing on archival and oral evidence from southern Malawi, it argues that colonial restriction on maize production to conserve the country’s soil fertility was an excuse by the state to achieve various economic interests. What the colonial state in Malawi …
The Political Economy of Irrigation Development and Peasant Food Production in Colonial Malawi, 1945–1961
This article explores the development of irrigation farming in Malawi from 1945 to 1961. It traces the origins of irrigation farming, strategies for its promotion, and the challenges that impinged on its success in colonial Malawi. In particular, it demonstrates the extent to which externally driven colonial agricultural developments like irrigation failed to achieve their intended purpose when paternalistic authorities implemented them without p…
World War II, Global Food Crisis and the Grow-More-Food Campaign in Malawi, 1939–1959
The outbreak of World War II in 1939 altered the trajectory of food production in Malawi in the last two decades of colonialism. This paper examines the extent to which the World War II and the World Food Crisis that followed shaped peasants’ food production in Malawi between 1939 and 1957. It argues that, while the war caused food shortages through the dislocation of labour and foodstuffs, it also altered the production of surplus foodstuffs. De…
Taiwan or China? Contestations over Diplomatic Relations in Southern Africa, with Particular Focus on Malawi, 1961–2014
Drawing evidence from existing archives, parliamentary proceedings, presidential speeches, newspaper reports and oral testimonies, this paper demonstrates the extent to which Malawi sustained diplomatic relations with Taiwan and China from 1961 to 2014, within the broader context of southern Africa. While trade dictated the diplomatic choice of the so-called ‘two Chinas’, individual leadership styles as well as domestic politics remained the deci…
We Are What We Eat: Nutrition, African Diets and the State in Colonial Malawi, 1920s-1960
This article explores the history of colonial state nutrition interventions in Malawi from the 1920s to 1960. Paying particular attention to the underlying motivations, the processes by which the interventions were undertaken and peasants’ responses, the study demonstrates the extent to which colonial projects driven by external forces achieved the desired transformations among the local inhabitants. Pressed by the growth of nutrition science in …
The Native is the Producer of the Future: Improving Peasants' Food Production in Southern Malawi, 1859-1939
Since the late 1850s, Malawi has seen various attempts by missionaries, settler farmers and administrators to transform peasant agriculture in the face of ecological, political and economic challenges. However, attempts to improve peasants’ food production have received little attention in the Malawian and regional historiography. Here I explore the interventions that the colonial state and other European actors made to improve peasants’ food pro…
We Are What We Eat: Nutrition, African Diets and the State in Colonial Malawi, 1920s-1960
This article explores the history of colonial state nutrition interventions in Malawi from the 1920s to 1960. Paying particular attention to the underlying motivations, the processes by which the interventions were undertaken and peasants’ responses, the study demonstrates the extent to which colonial projects driven by external forces achieved the desired transformations among the local inhabitants. Pressed by the growth of nutrition science in …
World War II, Global Food Crisis and the Grow-More-Food Campaign in Malawi, 1939–1959
The outbreak of World War II in 1939 altered the trajectory of food production in Malawi in the last two decades of colonialism. This paper examines the extent to which the World War II and the World Food Crisis that followed shaped peasants’ food production in Malawi between 1939 and 1957. It argues that, while the war caused food shortages through the dislocation of labour and foodstuffs, it also altered the production of surplus foodstuffs. De…
The Political Economy of Irrigation Development and Peasant Food Production in Colonial Malawi, 1945–1961
This article explores the development of irrigation farming in Malawi from 1945 to 1961. It traces the origins of irrigation farming, strategies for its promotion, and the challenges that impinged on its success in colonial Malawi. In particular, it demonstrates the extent to which externally driven colonial agricultural developments like irrigation failed to achieve their intended purpose when paternalistic authorities implemented them without p…
Taiwan or China? Contestations over Diplomatic Relations in Southern Africa, with Particular Focus on Malawi, 1961–2014
Drawing evidence from existing archives, parliamentary proceedings, presidential speeches, newspaper reports and oral testimonies, this paper demonstrates the extent to which Malawi sustained diplomatic relations with Taiwan and China from 1961 to 2014, within the broader context of southern Africa. While trade dictated the diplomatic choice of the so-called ‘two Chinas’, individual leadership styles as well as domestic politics remained the deci…
Taiwan or China? Contestations over Diplomatic Relations in Southern Africa, with Particular Focus on Malawi, 1961–2014
Drawing evidence from existing archives, parliamentary proceedings, presidential speeches, newspaper reports and oral testimonies, this paper demonstrates the extent to which Malawi sustained diplomatic relations with Taiwan and China from 1961 to 2014, within the broader context of southern Africa. While trade dictated the diplomatic choice of the so-called ‘two Chinas’, individual leadership styles as well as domestic politics remained the deci…
We Are What We Eat: Nutrition, African Diets and the State in Colonial Malawi, 1920s-1960
This article explores the history of colonial state nutrition interventions in Malawi from the 1920s to 1960. Paying particular attention to the underlying motivations, the processes by which the interventions were undertaken and peasants’ responses, the study demonstrates the extent to which colonial projects driven by external forces achieved the desired transformations among the local inhabitants. Pressed by the growth of nutrition science in …
The Native is the Producer of the Future: Improving Peasants' Food Production in Southern Malawi, 1859-1939
Since the late 1850s, Malawi has seen various attempts by missionaries, settler farmers and administrators to transform peasant agriculture in the face of ecological, political and economic challenges. However, attempts to improve peasants’ food production have received little attention in the Malawian and regional historiography. Here I explore the interventions that the colonial state and other European actors made to improve peasants’ food pro…
World War II, Global Food Crisis and the Grow-More-Food Campaign in Malawi, 1939–1959
The outbreak of World War II in 1939 altered the trajectory of food production in Malawi in the last two decades of colonialism. This paper examines the extent to which the World War II and the World Food Crisis that followed shaped peasants’ food production in Malawi between 1939 and 1957. It argues that, while the war caused food shortages through the dislocation of labour and foodstuffs, it also altered the production of surplus foodstuffs. De…
The Political Economy of Irrigation Development and Peasant Food Production in Colonial Malawi, 1945–1961
This article explores the development of irrigation farming in Malawi from 1945 to 1961. It traces the origins of irrigation farming, strategies for its promotion, and the challenges that impinged on its success in colonial Malawi. In particular, it demonstrates the extent to which externally driven colonial agricultural developments like irrigation failed to achieve their intended purpose when paternalistic authorities implemented them without p…
No Maize, No Life: Conservation, Maize Production, and African Responses in Colonial Southern Malawi, 1920–1960
This study explores the history of maize production to demonstrate the extent to which colonial conservation interspersed with economic expediency stifled African production from 1920 to 1960. Drawing on archival and oral evidence from southern Malawi, it argues that colonial restriction on maize production to conserve the country’s soil fertility was an excuse by the state to achieve various economic interests. What the colonial state in Malawi …
Much effort, little impact: The politics of public microcredit programs in Malawi
This paper contributes to locating the Malawian dynamics into an emerging discourse that argues that current microcredit programs are ineffective because they have become an instrument for serving international and domestic actors’ interests. It aims to analyze key actors’ interests in public microcredit programs in Malawi. Using a qualitative research design, we draw on 16 key informants, representing 13 national actor institutions that hold sta…
State Power, Dilemmas and African Agency: Peasant Food Production and the Making of the Colonial State in Malawi, 1883-1961
Fishing (in) the past to inform the future: Lessons from the histories of fisheries management in Lake Malawi and Mbenji Island
Without historical interrogation of past and present fisheries management, governors and their sponsors often fall into the trap of replicating and reproducing failed approaches. Even when aimed at community empowerment, a lack of historical awareness can lead to underappreciation of the institutional, economic, and socio-ecological contexts that resource users navigate. In this article, we explore the history of fisheries management in Lake Mala…
Change without transformation: Experiences with the implementation of agricultural extension delivery policy in Malawi, 2000–2020
Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi
This piece explores the parallel development of two fisheries management regimes in mid-twentieth-century Lake Malawi: one imposed by the British colonial government over the lake and the other by Senior Chief Makanjira focused on Mbenji Island. The parallel development of these regimes provides opportunity for close analysis of how fisheries management centred on different knowledge and practices led to distinctive legacies of governance legitim…
Toward an Optimum Yield: Science, Technology, and Fisheries Development in Lake Malawi, 1930–1964
In the late colonial period, fisheries science and colonial development programs converged in blueprints to better exploit marine resources throughout the British empire. Yet, the historiography of science and colonial development has focused predominantly on the management and exploitation of terrestrial resources with only limited investigation of parallel schemes focused on marine and freshwater resources. Centering on the final decades of the…
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