John Chilembwe
1871-1915 · Africa · Modern
Nyasaland Baptist preacher who organized an uprising against colonial rule in 1915.
Portrait: National Archives of Malawi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Birthplace
- Africa
- Known as
- Nyasaland Baptist preacher who organized an uprising against colonial rule in 1915.
John Chilembwe (1871-1915) endures among the great of Africa. Nyasaland Baptist preacher who organized an uprising against colonial rule in 1915. Across the modern age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost. Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.
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