Chilembwe, John, -1915
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Name (Latin)
Chilembwe, John, -1915
Other forms of name
Chilembwe, John, d. 1915
Date of birth
1871
Date of death
1915-02-03
Associated country
Malawi
Occupation
Clergy
Missionaries
Nationalists
Revolutionaries
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed January 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Chilembwe, John; missionary, nationalist, revolutionary, Baptist clergyperson; born c.1871 in Chiradzulu District, Sangano, Malawi. He received his initial education from Scottish Presbyterian missionary (1890s). He also attended a small African American theological college in Lynchburg, Virginia (1897). He returned to southern Nyasaland as ordained Baptist minister (1900) and founded the Providence Industrial Mission in Chiradzulu; he was chairman of the Native Industrial Union (1909). He led an armed insurrection and was killed; 15 January is commemorated as John Chilembwe Day in Malawi. He died 1915 in Malawi)
- Shepperson, G.Independent African, 1958.