Malawi at 60 Governance Webinar Series

Malawi at Sixty: A Political and Economic Analysis

On 6 July 2024, Malawi clocked sixty years as an independent nation. This stimulating webinar series will precede the publication of an authoritative, interdisciplinary book which recognises this milestone and offers a wide-ranging scholarly analysis of these sixty years.

Malawi at Sixty: A Political and Economic Analysis is edited by Gift Wasambo Kayira, Kenneth R. Ross and Mzee Hermann Yokoniah-Mvula.

The goal of the book and of the webinar series is to offer an objective account of Malawi’s successes and failures, strengths and weaknesses, achievements and challenges in such areas as national identity, constitutional developments, governance and state affairs, political life, economic achievements and challenges, public finance, the judicial system, civil society, ethnic and regional identities, cultural change, natural resources, development ethics, religion and public life, language issues, and literature and the arts.

Between October 2021 and May 2022, the SMP and MaSP co-hosted eight high-profile, digital webinars entitled ‘New Directions for Governance in Malawi’. The Malawi at 60 series is its natural successor, providing robust reflection across an array of aspects of life in Malawi over the past 60 years.

The names and dates of each webinar are listed below. Click here for more information and be sure to register for the webinars you wish to attend to receive joining instructions.

• Webinar 1: 4 June 2025: Sixty Years of Continuity and Change in Malawi’s Political Culture: A Historical Institutional Analysis of Malawi’s Political Landscape, 1964-2024
• Webinar 2: 18 June 2025: Building the Malawi Nation: A Historical Stocktaking, late 1950s to the Present
• Webinar 3: 2 July 2025: Church and State in Malawi, 1964-1924
• Webinar 4: 2 October 2025: The Judiciary’s Role in the Construction of Childhood Images
• Webinar 5: 16 October 2025: The Tenuous Relationship Between the Presidents and the Vice Presidents in Malawian Politics and its Effects on Malawi’s Democracy
• Webinar 6, 30 October 2025: Rumours, Orality and Voice Notes: the Evolution of the Malawi Public Sphere, 1961 to 2023