Visions for Racial Equality

Harri Englund is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. A Fellow of the British Academy, he has three decades of research experience in Southern and Central Africa. He is the author of From War to Peace on the Mozambique-Malawi Borderland (2002), Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor (2006) which was awarded the Amaury Talbot Prize, Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio (2011) and Gogo Breeze: Zambia's Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech (2018).

'Harri Englund has produced a thoroughly researched and insightful book on the history of early colonial Malawi. He explores the inter-relationships between the church, the colonial state, the capitalist class, and the Africans. Revolving around the work of Rev. David Clement Scott, of the Church of Scotland Mission, readers will appreciate how the spread of Christianity, as well as the operations of the state were 'negotiated' processes involving the 'civilized' Europeans and the colonized Africans.' Paul C. Banda, Tarleton State University

• 1. Introduction; 2. Among the wild Scotsmen; 3. Champagne and slaves; 4. The universal vernacular; 5. Frightful libel upon humanity; 6. Rhodes must not rise; 7. A future foreclosed; 8. Grief never wears out; 9. Liberal translations; 10. The rest is history.