You're Breaking My Heart

Primarily known to Westerners through its association with Madonna, Malawi is one of the most socially conservative nations in Africa, if not the entire world. The country's aggressive censorship board has long forbidden any hint of sex or violence, even when public health has been at stake. And the banning hasn't just excluded allegedly raunchy entertainments—under long-serving President for Life Hastings Banda, the censorship board put its seal of disapproval on all manner of books, music, ...