ABSTRACT
Colonisation and After Malawi is a small state, roughly the size of Ireland, situated in Central Africa, with approximately 4.8m inhabitants. It constitutes a narrow mountainous strip of land some 520 miles long and between 50 and 130 miles wide. Lake Malawi forms its main border to the east. The southern end of the country is bounded on all sides by Mozambique while to the northwest lies Zambia and to the north Tanzania. By African standards, it is densely populated with an average of 130 people per square mile.
