POL 51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Chewa People, Dependent And Independent Variables, Federation Of Rhodesia And Nyasaland
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Why chewas and tumbukas are allies in zambia and adversaries in malawi. : background: the boundary between zambia and malawi partitions the chewa and. The border that separates zambia and malawi thus does more than simply partition the. It also demarcates two completely different zones of intercultural relations . Why is the cultural cleavage between these two communities so much more politically and socially important in one country than the other? . Malawin respondents would have similar levels of exposure to people from the other ethnic group. : electoral rules: the effects on ethnic relations of political institutions such as electoral rules and federalism have received much attention in recent years. Their impact can be ruled out, since both zambia and malawi have identical single-member plurality electoral rules. : colonial history: colonial history offers few bases of differentiation, since zambia and. Malawi were both british colonies and partner states in the british-controlled central.
