East Africa after Liberation: Conflict, Security, and the State since the 1980s by Jonathan Fisher

epistemological chasm between the men. He quotes a frustrated Scott lamenting obliquely in the Mission’s newsletter shortly before his ouster that “nothing saps a man’s strength like prejudice” (196). Nothing in what Englund writes suggests that Hetherwick was a stalking horse for the extreme segregation prevalent in southern Africa a half-century later. This book insists, however, that “Hetherwick’s leadership erased any alternatives that Scott’s vision may have suggested” for a more egalitarian society in Central Africa (264). Nonetheless, as a methodological tour de force, Visions for Racial Equality exceeds in both scope and execution another intellectual biography, that of T. Cullen Young, another otherwise neglected Scottish missionary in central Africa. In so doing, Englund opens a much richer view to the history, and historiography, of Malawi.