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Reverend John Chilembwe, of Malawi (formerly Nyasaland), is a person of mythic proportions in his homeland because he stood for Malawian nationalism against British colonialism.
Around 1890, Chilembwe became a student at the Church of Scotland mission in Blantyre. He was later converted by Joseph Booth, a British Baptist missionary, and became his assistant from 1892 until 1895. Booth worked for a number of churches and had no denominational loyalty; he taught a radical equality that resonated with Chilembwe's own sense of black pride. In 1897, Booth took Chilembwe to the United States, where a Baptist church sponsored him through Virginia Theological College. Here he seems to have come into contact with contemporary African-American thinking, especially...

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