Our project aims at examining the colonial government’s response to pandemics in Nyasaland, now known as Malawi, especially the Spanish influenza of 1918–1919. The project focuses on lessons that can be drawn from past epidemics in responding to Covid-19. The following questions will be addressed: What practices were used to contain past pandemics? How successful … Continue reading Pandemics Past and Present: Lessons from Malawi’s Responses to the Spanish Flu (1918), Smallpox (1922), and Covid-19 (2020)