Dr John Lloyd Lwanda
- Affiliate Fellow (School of Social & Political Sciences)
Publications
2022
Bissett, M. et al. (2022) "I see salt everywhere": a qualitative examination of the utility of arts-based participatory workshops to study noncommunicable diseases in Tanzania and Malawi. PLoS Global Public Health, 2(12), e0000927. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000927) (PMID:36962765) (PMCID:PMC10022006)
Bunn, C. , Mtema, O., Nkhwazi, L., Reith, G. and Lwanda, J. (2022) 'They say "easy money", telling you to predict the games': an interview study with sports bettors in Lilongwe, Malawi. In: Nikkinen, J., Marionneau, V. and Egerer, M. (eds.) The Global Gambling Industry: Structures, Tactics and Networks of Impact. Series: Glücksspielforschung. Springer Gabler: Wiesbaden, pp. 113-129. ISBN 9783658356347 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-35635-4_8)
2021
Lwanda, J. L. (2021) Making Music in Malawi. Logos Open Culture: Lilongwe, Malawi. ISBN 9789996097928
2020
Bunn, C. , Kalinga, C., Mtema, O., Abdulla, S., Dillip, A., Lwanda, J., Mtenga, S., Sharp, J. , Strachan, Z. and Gray, C. (2020) Arts-based approaches to promoting health in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review. BMJ Global Health, 5, e001987. (doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001987) (PMID:32444361)
Lwanda, J. L. (2020) Pastors, priests, prophets: poverty and Christian religion in Malawi 1861 to 2018. In: Ross, K. R. and Mulwafu, W. O. (eds.) Politics, Christianity and Society in Malawi: Essays in Honour of John McCracken. Mzuni Press: Luwinga. ISBN 9789996060786
2019
Horn, D. and Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Kwasa Kwasa. In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, p. 355. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Afroma. In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 24-27. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Gule Wa Mkulu. In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 158-159. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Jazz Band (Malawi). In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 308-310. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Kwasa Kwasa (in Malawi). In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 357-358. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Malipenga. In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 376-379. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Mbumba. In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 425-428. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Ngoma/Ingoma (in Malawi). In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 455-456. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Reggae in Malawi. In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 484-486. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L., Mtema, O. and Bunn, C. (2019) How Have Arts-Based Approaches Been Used to Promote Health in Sub-Saharan Africa? 2nd International Medical Humanities Conference 2019, Blantyre, Malawi, 31 July-1 Aug 2019.
Chipembere Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Malawi: the state we are in? Montfort Media: Balaka, Malawi. ISBN 9789998084422
Chipembere Lwanda, J. L. and Phoya, M. M. (2019) Malawi at 50: culture, sport and music. Society of Malawi Journal, 72(1), pp. 35-58.
2018
Zimmermann, M., Bunn, C. , Namadingo, H., Gray, C. M. and Lwanda, J. (2018) Experiences of type 2 diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review. Global Health Research and Policy, 3, 25. (doi: 10.1186/s41256-018-0082-y)
2017
Lwanda, J. (2017) Is Medical Humanities Only for Developed Countries? Bringing the Argument Home. 2017 Inaugural Medical Humanities Conference, Zomba, Malawi, 24-26 Aug 2017.
Lwanda, J. and Chanika, E. (2017) Democracy, donors and dependency: the rises and falls of non-governmental and civil society organizations’ agency in Malawi opposition politics, 1992 - 2017. Society of Malawi Journal, 70(1), pp. 19-54.
2016
Lwanda, J. L. (2016) Poverty, prophets and politics: ‘Marxist’ discourses in Malawi music, 1994–2012. In: Salawu, A. and Chibita, M. B. (eds.) Indigenous Language Media, Language Politics and Democracy in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan UK: Basingstoke, pp. 211-234. ISBN 9781137547293
2015
Lwanda, J. L. (2015) John Chilembwe and Modern Malawian Culture or Culture, Conscientization and Chilembwe: the Contradictions of an Icon. African Studies Seminar, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh University, 2015.
2014
Lwanda, J. (2014) Diaspora, domicile and debate: a preliminary artistic and cultural research for a Malawi identity from pre-colonial times to 2014. Society of Malawi Journal, 67(1), pp. 16-45.
2013
Lwanda, J. (2013) Is Medical Humanities Only for Developed Countries? Annual Association for Medical Humanities Conference, Aberdeen, UK, 08-10 Jul 2013.
Lizi, E., Lwanda, J. and Matiti, H. (2013) Point of view: Modern medical myth: ‘more doctors in Manchester than in Malawi': a preliminary communication. Malawi Medical Journal, 25(1), pp. 20-21. (PMID:23717751) (PMCID:PMC3653194)
Chanika, E., Lwanda, J. L. and Muula, A. S. (2013) Gender, gays and gain: the sexualised politics of donor aid in Malawi. Africa Spectrum, 48(1), pp. 89-108. (doi: 10.1177/000203971304800105)
Lwanda, J. and Kanjo, C. (2013) Computers, culture and music: the history of the recording industry in Malawi. Society of Malawi Journal, 66(1), pp. 23-42.
2012
Lwanda, J. L. (2012) Chattering Classes: Radio, Rhythm and Resistance in 'Multi-Party' Malawi, 1994- 2012. African Studies Association of the UK Biennial Conference, Leeds, UK, 06-08 Sep 2012.
Lwanda, J. L. (2012) Memory and Music: memorializing the Malawi Martyrs. In: Phiri, K. M., McCracken, J. and Mulwafu, W. O. (eds.) Malawi in Crisis: the 1959/60 Nyasaland State of Emergency and its Legacy. Kachere Books: Zomba. ISBN 9789990887778
2011
Lwanda, J. L. (2011) “EdzI Ndi Dolo” (“AIDS is Mighty”): singing HIV/AIDS in Malawi, 1980–2008. In: Barz, G. and Cohen, J. (eds.) The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts. Oxford University Press: New York. ISBN 9780199744473 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199744473.003.0031)
Lwanda, J. L. (2011) Music and Social Protest (Malawi). In: Downing, J. D.H. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media. Sage: London. ISBN 9780761926887
2010
Lwanda, J. L. (2010) The public health relevance of Contagious Rhythm: Infectious Diseases of 20th Century Musicians. Clinical Medicine and Research, 8(2), pp. 82-83. (doi: 10.3121/cmr.2010.917) (PMID:20660930) (PMCID:PMC2910106)
2009
Lwanda, J. L. (2009) MCP to DPP: Democratising from Autocracy or Autocratising Democracy? Democratization in Africa: Retrospective and Future Prospects, Leeds, UK, 04-05 Dec 2009.
Lwanda, J. (2009) Diaspora, Domicile and Debate: an Artistic and Cultural Search for a Malawi Identity. In: 25th Annual Conference of the South African Visual Arts Historians, Pretoria, South Africa, 09-11 Jul 2009, pp. 85-99.
Lwanda, J. (2009) Music advocacy, the media and the Malawi political public sphere, 1958–2007. Journal of African Media Studies, 1(1), pp. 135-154. (doi: 10.1386/jams.1.1.135_1)
Lwanda, J. L. (2009) Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: a Study in Promise, Power and Legacy. Series: Kachere books series (51). Kachere: Zomba, Malawi. ISBN 9789990887907
2008
Kanjo, C. and Lwanda, J. (2008) Chicken and Egg: e-democracy as a Driver for e-governance in Malawi? In: EDem 2008, Krems, Austria, 29-30 Sep 2008, ISBN 9783854032397
Chipembere Lwanda, J. L. (2008) Music, Culture and Orature: Reading the Malawi Public Sphere, 1949 - 2006. Series: Kachere books series (35). Kachere: Zomba, Malawi. ISBN 9789990887334
Lwanda, J. L. (2008) The history of popular music in Malawi, 1891 to 2007: a preliminary communication. Society of Malawi Journal, 61(1), pp. 26-40.
Lwanda, J. L. (2008) Poets, culture and orature: A reappraisal of the Malawi political public sphere, 1953-2006. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 26(1), pp. 71-101. (doi: 10.1080/02589000701782661)
Lwanda, J. L. (2008) The Rhino’s Lament: (Kulira Kwa Chipembere): New Poetry and Polemics From the Diaspora. Dudu Nsomba Publications: Glasgow, Scotland. ISBN 9780953239696
2007
Lwanda, J. L. (2007) Scotland, Malawi and medicine: Livingstone’s legacy, I presume? An historical perspective. Scottish Medical Journal, 52(3), pp. 36-44. (doi: 10.1258/rsmsmj.52.3.36) (PMID:17874713)
2006
Lwanda, J. (2006) Kwacha: the violence of money in Malawi’s politics, 1954–2004. Journal of Southern African Studies, 32(3), pp. 525-544. (doi: 10.1080/03057070600830482)
Lwanda, J. L. (2006) Nkhope ya Agalatia: changes in the Malawi political landscape between 1994 and 2004. In: Ott, M. and Immink, B. (eds.) The Power of the Vote: Malawi’s 2004 Parliamentary and Presidential Elections. Kachere Books: Zomba. ISBN 9789990876581
2005
Lwanda, J. L. (2005) The informal and traditional: education for brain drain in Malawi. In: Beveridge, M., King, K., Palmer, R. and Wedgwood, R. (eds.) Reintegrating Education, Skills and Work in Africa. Edinburgh University: Edinburgh.
Lwanda, J. L. (2005) Politics, Culture and Medicine in Malawi: Historical Continuities and Ruptures With Special Reference to HIV/AIDS. Series: Kachere theses (6). Kachere: Zomba, Malawi. ISBN 9789990876130
2004
Lwanda, J. L. (2004) Nkhope ya Agalatia: Changes in the Malawi Political Landscape between 1994 and 2004. GTZ/NICE Seminar on the Malawi 2004 Elections, Mount Soche Hotel, Blantyre, Malawi, 2004.
Lwanda, J. L. (2004) Culture, orality, music and the disease HIV/AIDS: interrogating the oral public sphere in Malawi. Africa Quarterly, 44(2),
Lwanda, J. L. (2004) Historical ruptures and continuities in the HIV/Aids story. In: Kalipeni, E., Craddock, S., Oppong, J. and Ghosh, J. (eds.) HIV/AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology. Blackwell: Oxford. ISBN 9780631223573
2003
Lwanda, J. (2003) Orality, Music and HIV/AIDS: Interrogating the Malawi Popular Public Spher. In: African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific Annual Conference 2003: Africa on a Global Stage: Politics, History, Economics and Culture, Adelaide, Australia, 01-03 Oct 2003,
Lwanda, J. L. (2003) Constructions of Ufiti (Witchcraft) in 21st Century Malawi: Youth, State and HIV/AIDS. 46th African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA, 30 Oct - 02 Nov 2003.
Lwanda, J. L. (2003) The Government Disease: the Politics, Priorities and Cultural Perspectives of HIV/AIDS in Malawi. ROAPE Conference, Birmingham, UK, 05-07 Sep 2003.
Clendennen, G. and Lwanda, J. L. (2003) David Livingstone and Africa’s first cases of sickle cell anaemia. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 33(S12), pp. 21-28. (PMID:14969229)
Lwanda, J. (2003) Mother’s songs: male appropriation of women’s music in Malawi and Southern Africa. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 16(2), (doi: 10.1080/13696850500076146)
Lwanda, J. L. (2003) The [in]visibility of HIV/AIDS in the Malawi public sphere. African Journal of AIDS Research, 2(2), pp. 113-126. (doi: 10.2989/16085906.2003.9626566) (PMID:25872107)
2002
Lwanda, J. L. (2002) Doctoring the brain drain: medical case of Malawi. African Issues, 30(1), pp. 47-51. (doi: 10.2307/1167090)
Lwanda, J. L. (2002) Malawi: sounds Afroma! In: Broughton, S., Ellingham, M., Trillo, R., Duane, O. and Dowell, V. (eds.) World Music: the Rough Guide. Penguin: London. ISBN 9781858286358
Lwanda, J. L. (2002) Paper tigers: the rise and fall of the independent media in Malawi, 1961 – 2001. Society of Malawi Journal, 55(1), pp. 1-23.
Lwanda, J. L. (2002) Tikutha: the political culture of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Malawi. In: Englund, H. (ed.) A Democracy of Chameleons: Politics and Culture in the New Malawi. Nordic Africa Institute: Uppsala. ISBN 9789171064998
2001
Lwanda, J. L. (2001) The traditional in the popular: lyrical ambiguities in Malawi's socio-medical discourse, 1961-1999. In: McCracken, J., Lovering, T. J. and Chalamanda, F. J. (eds.) Twentieth Century Malawi: Perspectives on history and culture. Centre for Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling: Stirling. ISBN 9781857691474
2000
Lwanda, J. (2000) Politics, Culture and Medicine: an Unholy Trinity? Historical Continuities and Ruptures in the HIV/AIDS Story. Social Science and History Conference, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Zomba, 26-29 Jun 2000.
Lwanda, J. L. (2000) General Practice: Interrogating the Ontological and Epistemological Boundaries. Royal College of General Practitioners Spring Symposium, Crieff, Scotland, 14-16 Apr 2000.
1999
Lwanda, J. L. (1999) Hybridity and Multiple Identities in Malawi Medicine? Society for the Study of the History of Medicine Conference, Glasgow University, 1999.
1998
Lwanda, J. L. (1998) The Experiences of Political Change and an Analysis of the Problems Encountered During Transition From a One Party State. Malawi Association Conference, Manchester, UK, 1998.
1996
Lwanda, J. L. (1996) Personal Experience of the Democratic Transition. School of Oriental and African Studies One Day Conference Series, London, UK, 1996.
Lwanda, J. L. (1996) Promises, Power Politics and Poverty: Democratic Transition in Malawi, 1961-1999. Dudu Nsomba: Glasgow. ISBN 9780952223344
1994
Lwanda, J. L. (1994) Black Thoughts from the Diaspora. Dudu Nsomba Publications: Bothwell. ISBN 9780952223320
Lwanda, J. L. (1994) The Second Harvest. Dudu Nsomba Publications: Bothwell. ISBN 9780952223313
1993
Lwanda, J. L. (1993) The Music of Malawi in Context. Seminar paper, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK, 1993.
Articles
Bissett, M. et al. (2022) "I see salt everywhere": a qualitative examination of the utility of arts-based participatory workshops to study noncommunicable diseases in Tanzania and Malawi. PLoS Global Public Health, 2(12), e0000927. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000927) (PMID:36962765) (PMCID:PMC10022006)
Bunn, C. , Kalinga, C., Mtema, O., Abdulla, S., Dillip, A., Lwanda, J., Mtenga, S., Sharp, J. , Strachan, Z. and Gray, C. (2020) Arts-based approaches to promoting health in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review. BMJ Global Health, 5, e001987. (doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001987) (PMID:32444361)
Chipembere Lwanda, J. L. and Phoya, M. M. (2019) Malawi at 50: culture, sport and music. Society of Malawi Journal, 72(1), pp. 35-58.
Zimmermann, M., Bunn, C. , Namadingo, H., Gray, C. M. and Lwanda, J. (2018) Experiences of type 2 diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review. Global Health Research and Policy, 3, 25. (doi: 10.1186/s41256-018-0082-y)
Lwanda, J. and Chanika, E. (2017) Democracy, donors and dependency: the rises and falls of non-governmental and civil society organizations’ agency in Malawi opposition politics, 1992 - 2017. Society of Malawi Journal, 70(1), pp. 19-54.
Lwanda, J. (2014) Diaspora, domicile and debate: a preliminary artistic and cultural research for a Malawi identity from pre-colonial times to 2014. Society of Malawi Journal, 67(1), pp. 16-45.
Lizi, E., Lwanda, J. and Matiti, H. (2013) Point of view: Modern medical myth: ‘more doctors in Manchester than in Malawi': a preliminary communication. Malawi Medical Journal, 25(1), pp. 20-21. (PMID:23717751) (PMCID:PMC3653194)
Chanika, E., Lwanda, J. L. and Muula, A. S. (2013) Gender, gays and gain: the sexualised politics of donor aid in Malawi. Africa Spectrum, 48(1), pp. 89-108. (doi: 10.1177/000203971304800105)
Lwanda, J. and Kanjo, C. (2013) Computers, culture and music: the history of the recording industry in Malawi. Society of Malawi Journal, 66(1), pp. 23-42.
Lwanda, J. L. (2010) The public health relevance of Contagious Rhythm: Infectious Diseases of 20th Century Musicians. Clinical Medicine and Research, 8(2), pp. 82-83. (doi: 10.3121/cmr.2010.917) (PMID:20660930) (PMCID:PMC2910106)
Lwanda, J. (2009) Music advocacy, the media and the Malawi political public sphere, 1958–2007. Journal of African Media Studies, 1(1), pp. 135-154. (doi: 10.1386/jams.1.1.135_1)
Lwanda, J. L. (2008) The history of popular music in Malawi, 1891 to 2007: a preliminary communication. Society of Malawi Journal, 61(1), pp. 26-40.
Lwanda, J. L. (2008) Poets, culture and orature: A reappraisal of the Malawi political public sphere, 1953-2006. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 26(1), pp. 71-101. (doi: 10.1080/02589000701782661)
Lwanda, J. L. (2007) Scotland, Malawi and medicine: Livingstone’s legacy, I presume? An historical perspective. Scottish Medical Journal, 52(3), pp. 36-44. (doi: 10.1258/rsmsmj.52.3.36) (PMID:17874713)
Lwanda, J. (2006) Kwacha: the violence of money in Malawi’s politics, 1954–2004. Journal of Southern African Studies, 32(3), pp. 525-544. (doi: 10.1080/03057070600830482)
Lwanda, J. L. (2004) Culture, orality, music and the disease HIV/AIDS: interrogating the oral public sphere in Malawi. Africa Quarterly, 44(2),
Clendennen, G. and Lwanda, J. L. (2003) David Livingstone and Africa’s first cases of sickle cell anaemia. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 33(S12), pp. 21-28. (PMID:14969229)
Lwanda, J. (2003) Mother’s songs: male appropriation of women’s music in Malawi and Southern Africa. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 16(2), (doi: 10.1080/13696850500076146)
Lwanda, J. L. (2003) The [in]visibility of HIV/AIDS in the Malawi public sphere. African Journal of AIDS Research, 2(2), pp. 113-126. (doi: 10.2989/16085906.2003.9626566) (PMID:25872107)
Lwanda, J. L. (2002) Doctoring the brain drain: medical case of Malawi. African Issues, 30(1), pp. 47-51. (doi: 10.2307/1167090)
Lwanda, J. L. (2002) Paper tigers: the rise and fall of the independent media in Malawi, 1961 – 2001. Society of Malawi Journal, 55(1), pp. 1-23.
Books
Lwanda, J. L. (2021) Making Music in Malawi. Logos Open Culture: Lilongwe, Malawi. ISBN 9789996097928
Chipembere Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Malawi: the state we are in? Montfort Media: Balaka, Malawi. ISBN 9789998084422
Lwanda, J. L. (2009) Kamuzu Banda of Malawi: a Study in Promise, Power and Legacy. Series: Kachere books series (51). Kachere: Zomba, Malawi. ISBN 9789990887907
Chipembere Lwanda, J. L. (2008) Music, Culture and Orature: Reading the Malawi Public Sphere, 1949 - 2006. Series: Kachere books series (35). Kachere: Zomba, Malawi. ISBN 9789990887334
Lwanda, J. L. (2008) The Rhino’s Lament: (Kulira Kwa Chipembere): New Poetry and Polemics From the Diaspora. Dudu Nsomba Publications: Glasgow, Scotland. ISBN 9780953239696
Lwanda, J. L. (2005) Politics, Culture and Medicine in Malawi: Historical Continuities and Ruptures With Special Reference to HIV/AIDS. Series: Kachere theses (6). Kachere: Zomba, Malawi. ISBN 9789990876130
Lwanda, J. L. (1996) Promises, Power Politics and Poverty: Democratic Transition in Malawi, 1961-1999. Dudu Nsomba: Glasgow. ISBN 9780952223344
Lwanda, J. L. (1994) Black Thoughts from the Diaspora. Dudu Nsomba Publications: Bothwell. ISBN 9780952223320
Lwanda, J. L. (1994) The Second Harvest. Dudu Nsomba Publications: Bothwell. ISBN 9780952223313
Book Sections
Bunn, C. , Mtema, O., Nkhwazi, L., Reith, G. and Lwanda, J. (2022) 'They say "easy money", telling you to predict the games': an interview study with sports bettors in Lilongwe, Malawi. In: Nikkinen, J., Marionneau, V. and Egerer, M. (eds.) The Global Gambling Industry: Structures, Tactics and Networks of Impact. Series: Glücksspielforschung. Springer Gabler: Wiesbaden, pp. 113-129. ISBN 9783658356347 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-35635-4_8)
Lwanda, J. L. (2020) Pastors, priests, prophets: poverty and Christian religion in Malawi 1861 to 2018. In: Ross, K. R. and Mulwafu, W. O. (eds.) Politics, Christianity and Society in Malawi: Essays in Honour of John McCracken. Mzuni Press: Luwinga. ISBN 9789996060786
Horn, D. and Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Kwasa Kwasa. In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, p. 355. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Afroma. In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 24-27. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Gule Wa Mkulu. In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 158-159. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Jazz Band (Malawi). In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 308-310. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Kwasa Kwasa (in Malawi). In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 357-358. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Malipenga. In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 376-379. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Mbumba. In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 425-428. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Ngoma/Ingoma (in Malawi). In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 455-456. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2019) Reggae in Malawi. In: Feldman, H., Horn, D., Shepherd, J. and Kielich, G. (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Popular Music. Bloomsbury, pp. 484-486. ISBN 9781501342028
Lwanda, J. L. (2016) Poverty, prophets and politics: ‘Marxist’ discourses in Malawi music, 1994–2012. In: Salawu, A. and Chibita, M. B. (eds.) Indigenous Language Media, Language Politics and Democracy in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan UK: Basingstoke, pp. 211-234. ISBN 9781137547293
Lwanda, J. L. (2012) Memory and Music: memorializing the Malawi Martyrs. In: Phiri, K. M., McCracken, J. and Mulwafu, W. O. (eds.) Malawi in Crisis: the 1959/60 Nyasaland State of Emergency and its Legacy. Kachere Books: Zomba. ISBN 9789990887778
Lwanda, J. L. (2011) “EdzI Ndi Dolo” (“AIDS is Mighty”): singing HIV/AIDS in Malawi, 1980–2008. In: Barz, G. and Cohen, J. (eds.) The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing Through Music and the Arts. Oxford University Press: New York. ISBN 9780199744473 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199744473.003.0031)
Lwanda, J. L. (2011) Music and Social Protest (Malawi). In: Downing, J. D.H. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media. Sage: London. ISBN 9780761926887
Lwanda, J. L. (2006) Nkhope ya Agalatia: changes in the Malawi political landscape between 1994 and 2004. In: Ott, M. and Immink, B. (eds.) The Power of the Vote: Malawi’s 2004 Parliamentary and Presidential Elections. Kachere Books: Zomba. ISBN 9789990876581
Lwanda, J. L. (2005) The informal and traditional: education for brain drain in Malawi. In: Beveridge, M., King, K., Palmer, R. and Wedgwood, R. (eds.) Reintegrating Education, Skills and Work in Africa. Edinburgh University: Edinburgh.
Lwanda, J. L. (2004) Historical ruptures and continuities in the HIV/Aids story. In: Kalipeni, E., Craddock, S., Oppong, J. and Ghosh, J. (eds.) HIV/AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology. Blackwell: Oxford. ISBN 9780631223573
Lwanda, J. L. (2002) Malawi: sounds Afroma! In: Broughton, S., Ellingham, M., Trillo, R., Duane, O. and Dowell, V. (eds.) World Music: the Rough Guide. Penguin: London. ISBN 9781858286358
Lwanda, J. L. (2002) Tikutha: the political culture of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Malawi. In: Englund, H. (ed.) A Democracy of Chameleons: Politics and Culture in the New Malawi. Nordic Africa Institute: Uppsala. ISBN 9789171064998
Lwanda, J. L. (2001) The traditional in the popular: lyrical ambiguities in Malawi's socio-medical discourse, 1961-1999. In: McCracken, J., Lovering, T. J. and Chalamanda, F. J. (eds.) Twentieth Century Malawi: Perspectives on history and culture. Centre for Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling: Stirling. ISBN 9781857691474
Conference or Workshop Item
Lwanda, J. L., Mtema, O. and Bunn, C. (2019) How Have Arts-Based Approaches Been Used to Promote Health in Sub-Saharan Africa? 2nd International Medical Humanities Conference 2019, Blantyre, Malawi, 31 July-1 Aug 2019.
Lwanda, J. (2017) Is Medical Humanities Only for Developed Countries? Bringing the Argument Home. 2017 Inaugural Medical Humanities Conference, Zomba, Malawi, 24-26 Aug 2017.
Lwanda, J. L. (2015) John Chilembwe and Modern Malawian Culture or Culture, Conscientization and Chilembwe: the Contradictions of an Icon. African Studies Seminar, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh University, 2015.
Lwanda, J. (2013) Is Medical Humanities Only for Developed Countries? Annual Association for Medical Humanities Conference, Aberdeen, UK, 08-10 Jul 2013.
Lwanda, J. L. (2012) Chattering Classes: Radio, Rhythm and Resistance in 'Multi-Party' Malawi, 1994- 2012. African Studies Association of the UK Biennial Conference, Leeds, UK, 06-08 Sep 2012.
Lwanda, J. L. (2009) MCP to DPP: Democratising from Autocracy or Autocratising Democracy? Democratization in Africa: Retrospective and Future Prospects, Leeds, UK, 04-05 Dec 2009.
Lwanda, J. L. (2004) Nkhope ya Agalatia: Changes in the Malawi Political Landscape between 1994 and 2004. GTZ/NICE Seminar on the Malawi 2004 Elections, Mount Soche Hotel, Blantyre, Malawi, 2004.
Lwanda, J. L. (2003) Constructions of Ufiti (Witchcraft) in 21st Century Malawi: Youth, State and HIV/AIDS. 46th African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA, 30 Oct - 02 Nov 2003.
Lwanda, J. L. (2003) The Government Disease: the Politics, Priorities and Cultural Perspectives of HIV/AIDS in Malawi. ROAPE Conference, Birmingham, UK, 05-07 Sep 2003.
Lwanda, J. (2000) Politics, Culture and Medicine: an Unholy Trinity? Historical Continuities and Ruptures in the HIV/AIDS Story. Social Science and History Conference, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Zomba, 26-29 Jun 2000.
Lwanda, J. L. (2000) General Practice: Interrogating the Ontological and Epistemological Boundaries. Royal College of General Practitioners Spring Symposium, Crieff, Scotland, 14-16 Apr 2000.
Lwanda, J. L. (1999) Hybridity and Multiple Identities in Malawi Medicine? Society for the Study of the History of Medicine Conference, Glasgow University, 1999.
Lwanda, J. L. (1998) The Experiences of Political Change and an Analysis of the Problems Encountered During Transition From a One Party State. Malawi Association Conference, Manchester, UK, 1998.
Lwanda, J. L. (1996) Personal Experience of the Democratic Transition. School of Oriental and African Studies One Day Conference Series, London, UK, 1996.
Lwanda, J. L. (1993) The Music of Malawi in Context. Seminar paper, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK, 1993.
Conference Proceedings
Lwanda, J. (2009) Diaspora, Domicile and Debate: an Artistic and Cultural Search for a Malawi Identity. In: 25th Annual Conference of the South African Visual Arts Historians, Pretoria, South Africa, 09-11 Jul 2009, pp. 85-99.
Kanjo, C. and Lwanda, J. (2008) Chicken and Egg: e-democracy as a Driver for e-governance in Malawi? In: EDem 2008, Krems, Austria, 29-30 Sep 2008, ISBN 9783854032397
Lwanda, J. (2003) Orality, Music and HIV/AIDS: Interrogating the Malawi Popular Public Spher. In: African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific Annual Conference 2003: Africa on a Global Stage: Politics, History, Economics and Culture, Adelaide, Australia, 01-03 Oct 2003,