Voices from the Chilembwe Rising: Witness Testimonies Made to the Nyasaland Rising Commission of Inquiry, 1915 by McCracken, John

Voices from the Chilembwe Rising: Witness Testimonies Made to the Nyasaland Rising Commission of Inquiry, 1915 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780197265925)

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Voices from the Chilembwe Rising: Witness Testimonies Made to the Nyasaland Rising Commission of Inquiry, 1915 by McCracken, John

Voices from the Chilembwe Rising: Witness Testimonies Made to the Nyasaland Rising Commission of Inquiry, 1915

$185.00
Voices from the Chilembwe Rising: Witness Testimonies Made to the Nyasaland Rising Commission of Inquiry, 1915 by McCracken, John

Voices from the Chilembwe Rising: Witness Testimonies Made to the Nyasaland Rising Commission of Inquiry, 1915

$185.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 by leading historian John Iliffe 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; his image is depicted on the country's banknotes.

This book contains a comprehensive selection of the 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 report is published in full.

Together, these testimonies are a fundamental source for an understanding of the causes and character of the Rising. More generally, they throw a revealing light on social and economic relations in early colonial Malawi. John McCracken provides extensive explanatory comments focusing, in particular, on the problematic nature of the sources. An appendix gives detailed notes on the individuals involved.

Author: John McCracken
ISBN-10: 0197265928
ISBN-13: 9780197265925
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/10/2015
Pages: 550
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 1.70d
By John McCracken
By John McCracken
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John McCracken was born in Scotland and studied history as an undergraduate and postgraduate at Cambridge. In 1964, while completing his Ph.D., he taught briefly at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and made his first extended research visit to Malawi. The next year, he joined the new History Department, headed by Terence Ranger, at the University College of Dar es Salaam where he worked for four years. In 1969, he came to Stirling University where he introduced African history and served as founding Director of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies. He was Professor of History at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 1980-1983 and returned as Visiting Professor in 2008. He is a past President of the African Studies Association from whom he received the award of Distinguished Africanist in 2008.

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