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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 takes the reader through a detailed agricultural and social history of Southern Malwai.Vaughan, Megan is the author of 'Story of an African Famine : Gender and Famine in Twentieth Century Malawi', published 1987 under ISBN 9780521329170 and ISBN 0521329175.
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