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• W1599295742 abstract "The government of former president-for-life Dr. H.K. Banda and the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) in Malawi was a dictatorship that relied on coercion as well as mobilization of grassroots popular support and to maintain itself in for 30 years (1964-1994). The regime's coercive tactics included draconian censorship of stories, poems, plays, songs, and other creative work that contained any critical commentary of the dictatorship (Gibbs 69-83; Zeleza 33-37). The ruling party also made liberal use of detention without trial, the torture of political opponents, extra-judicial killings, and forced exile against those it deemed a threat to its survival (Africa Watch 23-54). Banda's regime appropriated citizens' cultural activities producing a political discourse that popularized and legitimized the dictatorship in ways that resonate with Antonio Gramsci's definition of hegemony. Gramsci defines hegemony as consent given the great masses of the population to the general direction imposed on social life the dominant fundamental group (12). In a similar vein, Roger Simon explains hegemony as a relation of the ruling class and the governed by means of political and ideological (21). In Malawi Banda and the MCP comprised the dominant group. Carl Boggs observes that the hegemonic ruling class seeks to justify their power, wealth, or status ideologically with the aim of securing popular acceptance of their dominant position as something 'natural,' part of an eternal social order, and thus unchallengeable (161), a strategy sought Banda and the MCP. Banda's political and ideological leadership were propagated and naturalized under the virtually irrefutable rhetoric of Kamuzuism. Kamuzuism, a political theory that understands the leader to be chosen for lifetime rule a higher power, included ideas, beliefs, and myths about Banda and presented him as the fount of all wisdom and a leader who always knew what was best for the nation (Phiri 3). That is to say that Kamuzuism imbued Banda with the aura of possessing supernatural or divine wisdom. Through Kamuzuism, Banda's life and actions became legends and myths, acts of God's divine intervention in his life for the good of the people of Malawi. This was most explicit in the titles and praise names with religious connotations given to Banda, each supposedly representing his special attributes. These names should be understood within the cultural politics of political symbols, where Hayward and Dumbuya explain that their importance Rests on what they evoke in the minds of the people--whether pride, hostility, satisfaction, reassurance, or support--because they are associated with particular events, types of action, deeds, benefits. It is not so much the symbols themselves that are significant, but the meanings that people attribute to them. (648) Victor T. Le Vine goes further to suggest that political symbols adopted political leaders in Africa relate to the political roles, styles, and images that they intend to project. These are directly related to people's expectations of the leaders and the given norms which they should operate. Le Vine argues that any leader must cope with a given image of his attempting to satisfy the sum of the norms and expectations of performance, as well as finding the appropriate acts to give personal expression to the role (632). The choice of praise titles, for example, Le Vine observes, is based on the evocative power of the symbols, and whether they will help to create or maintain affect between [the leaders] and their followers, to induce submission, acquiescence or support, as well as to satisfy their own role-cognitions (632). Banda was called Mpulumutsi, meaning Messiah or Savior. This title was derived from the fact that in 1963 Banda led the people of Malawi to independence from British colonial rule. In so doing he assumed the stature of a god similar to Jesus. …" @default.
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• W1599295742 title "Subverting Banda’s Dictatorship in Malawi: Orality as Counter-Discourse in Jack Mapanje’s Of Chameleons and Gods" @default.
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