Wood spent 50 years mainly in Nyasaland (now Malawi) studying and collecting mammals, birds, fish, insects, shells and plants. After a good education, he turned his back on the formalities of life in England and became a cotton farmer in Africa. He never settled - always looking for new challenges and experiences. At various times, he owned a tea estate, was the first Game Warden of Nyasaland, a school teacher, and finally a beach-comber in the Sey-chelles. He was also a tracker and hunter who preferred to hunt with a bow and arrow rather than with a gun. Throughout his career, collecting in the most meticulous and scientific fashion was his all-absorbing passion. His valuable collections are now in prestigious museums and several species have been named after him, and yet his name is almost unknown except to the most ardent lovers of African natural history. Index, col photos, 290pp, UK. BOOK GUILD.

Reverend Father John E.A. Mandambwe was born in 1926 in the Zomba District Malawi. At that time he knew nothing of a war which was raging in other parts of the world. How then, did he become a soldier in the British Army where he served in the King's African Rifles K.A.R? The war took him to Egypt and India over a seven-year period and he returned as a Staff Sergeant. 108pp, b/w illus, MALAWI. KACHERE SERIES.

A complete and broad analysis of the effects of World War One on Malawi, and of Malawians participation in it. app, maps, notes, bib, index, xvi, 246 pp, BNS. UK. WESTVIEW PRESS, 081330735X

2000 Hardback

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The late Andrew C. Ross was a Scottish missionary in Malawi between 1958 and 1965 and one of the founding members of the Malawi Congress Party. He deeply opposed the Central African Federation, and was a strong supporter of the emerging Malawian nationalist movement. When, following the declaration of a State of Emergency in March 1959, many of the political leaders of the Nyasaland African Congress were detained, Ross regularly visited those held at Kanjedza near Limbe - visits which helped to deepen both his friendship with them, and his commitment to their cause. When Orton Chirwa was released from detention later in 1959, and persuaded to become the temporary leader of the newly formed Malawi Congress Party, Andrew Ross was one of the first to join it, becoming the proud holder of MCP card number six. Includes a Foreword by Professor George Shepperson. 256pp, MALAWI. KACHERE SERIES.

Discusses the impact on education, generally, of the Nyasaland Post-War Development Programme, the Colonial Office Commissions of 1947, 1951 and 1961, and the local Committees set up to inquire into the retardation of African education in its various categories, including female and Muslim, in response to both local and international pressure. Argues that, although considered a priority, African education developed slowly, contrary to the declared goal of colonial policy of self-determination with its potential demands for trained local manpower. 330pp, MALAWI. KACHERE SERIES.

Sixth edition. The career of Chilembwe anticipated many of the problems of later generations of African politicians. Joseph Booth, the missionary who took Chilembwe to America in 1897 typified the white critic of European rule whose good intentions sometimes had results never intended. 34 b/w illus, maps, app, notes, refs, bib, index, xvi, 574pp, MALAWI. KACHERE SERIES.

This history focuses on the migration and dispersal of the peoples of Malawi, missionary history and British rule. Index, refs, b/w photographs, 292pp, MALAWI. CLAIM.

The contributors to this book have all studied Malawi's Muslims at first hand. They explore why Islam first came to the region and the ways it affects the lives of those who profess it, and the forces that are bringing about the current changes. Index. 220pp. MALAWI. KACHERE SERIES.

Recollections of Malawi, particularly from the period just before and after independence in 1964. Gloss, 166pp, UK. MPEMBA BOOKS.

2006 9780954202026 Paperback

Examines medicine and health, colonialism and Christian missionary efforts in Central Africa through the case study of the Livingstonia Mission of the Free Church of Scotland in Malawi between 1875 and 1930. The author describes ideas, practices and experiences of illness, health and medicine among missionaries, Africans and colonialists in the Northern Malawi region. 672pp, USA. EDWIN MELLEN PRESS.

More expatriate recollections following on from 'Memories of Malawi' (1997), 'Further Memories of Malawi' (2000) and 'Nyasaland and Malawi Days' (2001). B/w illus, 144pp, UK. SCARIMA.

2005 NO ISBN Paperback

Donald Munro and William McEwan were engineers who worked on the construction of the Stevenson Road in Nyasaland, now Malawi, in the Nineteenth Century. The road was one of the most ambitious projects of the imperial dream: to link territories with British interests by building commercial trade routes through East and central Africa. The Stevenson Road aimed to link Lake Nyasa with Lake Tanganyika in order to reach the Indian Ocean. This volume brings together extracts from the explorers' diaries accompanied by a narrative situating the texts in geographical, historical and socio-political context. Maps, b/w illus, 150pp, MALAWI. KACHERE SERIES.

This account of the 1949 famine in colonial Malawi employs a wide variety of historical sources, ranging from Colonial Office documentation to the songs of women who lived through the tragedy. The analysis of the causes and development of the famine narrates a detailed agricultural and social history of Southern Malawi in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing in particular on the nature of social and economic stratification, changes in kinship systems and the position of women and placing all this within the wider context of the impact of colonial rule. 191pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Three papers deal with aspects of colonial history, and four look at aspects of Malawian culture in recent times. Notes, 118pp, UK. UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING, 1857691474

2001 paperback