Today #Malawi celebrates Rev #JohnChilembwe, Malawi’s foremost hero although that position is contested by some.

In 1958, Professor Emeritus George Shepperson (late) and Tim Price published the seminal ‘Independent African: John Chilembwe and the Origins, Setting and Significance of the Nyasaland Native Rising of 1915’,

A very nuanced portrait of the African as an Historical figure. Up until then, social anthropology dominated Africana studies.

In 2015, in the centenary year of his uprising, I wrote a short introductory piece on Chilembwe, for the influential New York-based blog, Africa is a Country. https://africasacountry.com/2015/12/the-legend-of-john-chilembwe

It has become much read, including being included as part of core curricula at #KingsCollegeLondon

Prof Shepperson passed away last in year. I pay him tribute in an upcoming Society of Malawi journal. For those without institutional access, draft piece is here: https://www.academia.edu/43804905/The_genius_of_Prof_Emeritus_George_Shepperson

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