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Blantyre Mission and the making of modern Malawi

Title
Blantyre Mission and the making of modern Malawi / Andrew C. Ross.
Author
Ross, Andrew (Andrew C.)
Publication
Blantyre [Malawi] : Christian Literature Association in Malawi, 1996.

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216 pages : map; 21 cm.
Summary
  • When a thousand leading members of the Nyasaland African Congress were detained under the emergency regulations imposed by the Federation government in 1959, the Presbyterian chaplains who ministered to them at Kanchedza Camp in Limbe were the late Rev Jonathan Sangaya and Rev Andrew C. Ross. They soon discovered that around 700 of the thousand men were members of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian.
  • This raised a question in the mind of the recently arrived Scottish missionary: how may we account historically for the fact than so many national leaders were Presbyterians? The quest to answer that question led him to produce the thorough examination of the foundation and early history of the Blantyre Mission of the Church of Scotland which is found in this book.
  • Written in the mid-1960s, it remains today an indispensable work of reference for understanding the history of both church and nation in Malawi.
Series Statement
Kachere monograph ; no. 1
Uniform Title
Kachere monograph ; no. 1.
Subject
  • Blantyre Mission
  • Church of Scotland > Missions > Blantyre Region
  • Malawi > History
Note
  • Revised version of the authors PhD thesis.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-205) and index.
Contents
1. The Scottish Base -- 2. The Failure at Blantyre -- 3. A New Beginning under David Clement Scott, 1881-1891 -- 4. The Need for a Protectorate -- 5. Mission and Boma, 1889-1914 -- 6. The Growth of the Church, 1891-1889: D.C. Scott as Leader -- 7. The Growth of the Church, 1889-1914: Hetherwick as Leader -- 8. The War and the Beginning of a New Day -- Map of Malawi -- Table of Sources.
ISBN
9990816026
LCCN
97983259
OCLC
  • 36887826
  • ocm36887826
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries