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The term existentialism may call to mind smoke-filled French coffee houses and over-educated intellectuals. But humanities scholar Damazio Mfune-Mwanjakwa argues that Malawian parables, songs, and other “lore” created mainly by “ordinary” people without college educations also reflect existential thought.
Mfune-Mwanjakwa...