In this set of essays Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan explore themes
in the history of death in Zambia and Malawi from the late nineteenth
century to the present day. Drawing on extensive archival and oral
historical research they examine the impact of Christianity on spiritual
beliefs, the racialised politics of death on the colonial Copperbelt,
the transformation of burial practices, the histories of suicide and of
maternal mortality, and the political life of the corpse.