Upcoming event at The Culture Lab on lessons from the Malawian and Zambia Elections with Prof Nic Cheeseman and Golden Matonga
Book your seat for our next event at The Culture Lab on lessons from the Malawian and Zambian Elections. We will host Professor Nic Cheeseman and investigative journalist Golden Matonga for what will be a thought-provoking event.
Join us on 30 September 2021 at 5.30pm at The Culture Lab at Four Seasons, Lilongwe for ‘The Malawian and Zambian Elections: Lessons for Democracy and Development in the Region’.
Email us at logosopenculture@gmail.com or send us a message on +265 99 63 76 788 to reserve your spot.
About our speaker, discussant and chair
Professor Nic Cheeseman is Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham and was formerly the Director of the African Studies Centre at Oxford University. He mainly works on democracy, elections and development. He has published research on Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Professor Cheeseman is the author or editor of eleven books, including Democracy in Africa (2015), How to Rig an Election (2018), and The Moral Economy of Elections in Africa (2020). How to Rig an Election will be available for sale and signing at the event.
Golden Matonga is an investigative journalist based in Lilongwe. He works for Nation Publications Limited and also writes for a number of international outlets. These include the Financial Times, Economist, The Continent and the Mail and Guardian. He is also a member of the International Consortium for Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). He worked on ICIJ’s groundbreaking investigation the FINCEN Files. Check out one of his FINCEN stories here.
Logos Open Culture’s founder Muti Etter-Phoya will chair the event. He is a data scientist, published author and academic. He has been a part of Malawi and Africa’s open landscape since 2005, when he started ‘Portrait Malawi’, a repository for curating Malawi’s heritage.
About The Culture Lab
The Culture Lab is a hub and co-working space. We care deeply about Malawi’s culture and heritage. The Culture Lab also hosts your favourite bookshop Chambo Market, the main outlet of our Logos Open Culture publications.
This is The Culture Lab’s third event since we opened our doors at Four Seasons in July this year. So far, we’ve discussed archaeology and oral history among the Chewa (did you know the Chewa King was likely trading with China in 1600 AD?) with Malawian archaeologist Professor Yusuf Juwayeyi. And we’ve debated the legacy of Dr Kamuzu Banda with social historian Dr John Lwanda, author of seminal work Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: A Study in Promise, Power and Legacy and of our forthcoming publication Making Music in Malawi.
