Voices from the Chilembwe rising witness testimonies made to the Nyasaland Rising Commission of Inquiry, 1915
The Chilembwe (or Nyasaland) Rising of January 1915 is one of the most fascinating episodes in the history of resistance in southern Africa. A small-scale event, suppressed within a matter of days, the Rising has been described as the only significant rebellion in the whole of Africa prior to the Fi...
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Oxford
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
2015
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | Fontes historiae Africanae
new series No. 14 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The Chilembwe (or Nyasaland) Rising of January 1915 is one of the most fascinating episodes in the history of resistance in southern Africa. A small-scale event, suppressed within a matter of days, the Rising has been described as the only significant rebellion in the whole of Africa prior to the First World War to be inspired by Christianity. Its leader, John Chilembwe, a Baptist minister trained in the United States, is now lauded in official circles as Malawi's first nationalist, and his image is depicted on the country's banknotes. This book contains a comprehensive selection of verbatim and written evidence presented to the Commission of Inquiry set up to examine the causes of the Rising. Witnesses included colonial officials, missionaries and settlers but also a substantial number of Malawians, among them Presbyterian ministers and teachers, government clerks, businessmen, chiefs and headmen. Five European women, dramatically caught up in the Rising, add their own accounts of events. The Commission's final report is published in full |
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| Beschreibung: | XXVI, 623 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0197265928 0-19-726592-8 9780197265925 978-0-19-726592-5 |