1. Laurel Birch Aguilar received her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She is currently in University of Edinburgh development and involved in the University Centre of African Studies. Her publications include Inscribing the Mask and, as co-author, Women's Organizing, as well as articles based on her fi eld research in Malawi. As chair of mafam uk Trust, she continues to work on relief of hardship and famine in the villages where she did her research.