Chilembwe, John, -1915 (Personal Name)

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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)