Kungoni Centre of Culture and Art, Mua Mission, Malawi

Research and Publications

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Kungoni Centre has published Claude Boucher Chisale’s seminal account of Gule Wamkulu, the Great Dance of the Chewa people of Malawi: When Animals Sing and Spirits Dance (Oxford 2012), together with Gary J. Morgan and Arjen van de Merwe.

Kasiya Maliro: the Great Mother of Gule Wamkulu: 160 of her Children Filmed in Action completes the trilogy. This two-hour DVD presents archive footage of Gule Wamkulu characters and the rituals at which they perform. It illustrates both the book and the website.

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The most important study of Claude Boucher Chisale’s work at Kungoni Centre is by Martin Ott: African Theology in Images (CLAIM: Blantyre 2000).

 

 

Kafukufuku Research Library

The Kafukufuku Research Library houses Kungoni Centre’s archives and a small collection of books related to the contents of the Chamare Museum and the Art Gallery. It is open to visiting scholars.

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Kungoni Centre’s own publications include:

Claude Boucher Chisale: Digging Our Roots: The Chamare Museum Frescoes (Mua Mission 2002)

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Claude Boucher Chisale: The Gospel Seed: Culture and Faith in Malawi as expressed in the Missio Banner (Mua Mission 2002)

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Serge St-Arneault: Kungoni: When Water Falls, Sand Becomes Crystal: A Guide to Mua and the Kungoni Centre of Culture and Art, Second Edition (Mua Mission 2014)

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Kungoni Centre has also produced a number of recordings of Malawi’s traditional dances.

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Njovuyalema Archive

Njovuyalema (the elephant is in labour) is a Chewa proverb meaning that when a great person undertakes a task, or when a great event is about to occur, the results will be momentous. It was the name of Kungoni Centre’s weblog, which ran as a live blog at njovuyalema.org. The weblog itself is no longer online; the following documents from it are archived here for reference:

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