A Monument More Lasting than Bronze – Classics in the University of Malawi, 1982–2019 : Classics in the University of Malawi, 1982–2019
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Hellenic Studies Series
ISBN-10
067427850X
ISBN-13
9780674278509
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Imprint
Harvard University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 3rd, 2024
Print length
276 Pages
Weight
488 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 23.00 x 2.10 cms
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Higher education, tertiary educationUniversities
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A Monument More Lasting than Bronze analyzes the motives for establishing a Department of Classics at the University of Malawi and the political goals it served, and examines it in the context of Classics worldwide. A balanced team of authors, some Malawian, some foreign with Malawian connections, brings varied perspectives to this reflection.
Formed in 1964, the year of independence, the University of Malawi promised more than the distant University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland—founded 1952—ever could. A decade and a half later, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, by then Life President of the Republic of Malawi, let it be known to the University that a Department of Classics was to be established—teaching the history and languages of the ancient Mediterranean world at Zomba, on the edge of the African Rift Valley. A Monument More Lasting than Bronze analyzes President Banda’s motives for this surreal intervention and the political goals it served, and also sketches out the shape the enterprise he called into being has taken—all in the context of worldwide transformations of Classics. A balanced team of authors, some Malawian, some foreign with Malawian connections, brings varied perspectives to this reflection.
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