Research Catalog

Title

Voices from the Chilembwe rising : witness testimonies made to the Nyasaland Rising Commission of Inquiry, 1915 / edited by John McCracken.

Publication

• Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2015.
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

McCracken, John, 1938-

Description

xxvi, 623 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Fontes historiae Africanae = Sources of African history ; new series 14

Uniform Title

Fontes historiae Africanae. New ser. 14.

Subjects

• Malawi
• History
• Chilembwe Rebellion (Malawi : 1915)
• 1915
• Malawi > History > Chilembwe Rebellion, 1915 > Sources
• Sources

Genre/Form

• History.
• Sources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-617) and index.

Contents

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Maps -- Introduction. The witness statements : Rumours of revolt -- Malawian testimonies -- W.J. Livingstone, Magomero and the Bruce Estates -- "The effects of mission teaching on the native mind" -- Revolts on the periphery: Zomba, Mlanje, Ncheu and Midima -- Female witness statements -- Nyasaland Rising Commission Report. Dramatis personae -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

Sc E 16-1518

ISBN

• 9780197265925
• 0197265928

OCLC

935682255

Title

Voices from the Chilembwe rising : witness testimonies made to the Nyasaland Rising Commission of Inquiry, 1915 / edited by John McCracken.

Publisher

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2015

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Fontes historiae Africanae = Sources of African history ; new series 14

Fontes historiae Africanae. New ser. 14.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 615-617) and index.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Chronological Term

1915

Added Author

McCracken, John, 1938- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-1518