Overview
Why study abroad in Malawi?
Malawi is increasingly becoming known for innovative subsistence and sustainable agricultural practices. However, many Malawians still struggle to access basic healthcare, clean water, and educational opportunities. In recent years, heavy rainfalls and cyclones, both impacts of climate change, are also affecting the country’s natural resources and straining its agricultural practices and systems. Malawians are redefining their lives to provide for their families and communities as they apply novel technologies drawn from Indigenous knowledges, sometimes beyond the gaze of development policymakers and practitioners.
In urban and rural settings and during a comparative excursion to Zambia, you will learn about development projects spearheaded by communities and learn about decolonial theory in the context of a complex hierarchical structure of chieftaincy, which both complicates and augments inclusive approaches to development. Through hands-on research, you will consider possibilities for decolonizing development and build your own inclusive approach based on the tenets of social justice and equitable access to resources.
Develop the knowledge and skillset for careers with organizations like the UN, USAID, and Peace Corps, as well as grassroots and community-based organizations. Through case studies with development projects focused on education, urban infrastructure, access to clean water, public health, agriculture, and food systems, this program is suitable for students coming from a wide variety of majors.
Receive up to $1,000 in flight credits when you join this new program! Learn more HERE
Highlights
- Examine Malawi’s development through case studies on urban and rural infrastructure, public health, education, water access, and agriculture.
- Learn about Malawi’s history and interrogate possibilities for decolonizing approaches to development.
- Go on a safari in Lower Zambezi National Park and discuss tourism’s impact on the economies of Southeast Africa.
- Put development theory to practice through a collaborative research project with a local community on a topic of your choice.
Prerequisites
None