Death of john chilembwe history
John Chilembwe (June – 3 February ) was a Baptist pastor, educator and revolutionary who trained as a minister in the United States, returning to.
After a failed attack on a Catholic mission, Chilembwe resolved to flee into Mozambique to avoid capture.!
The year marks a centenary after the Chilembwe uprising against imperial Britain – an activity that is believed to have influenced, in some way, Marcus Garvey.
Reverend John Chilembwe was born circa in the then ‘nameless’ enclave that later became British Central Africa before mutating into Nyasaland (land of the lake), now Malawi. In , initiative led him to knock on the door of the radical missionary Joseph Booth, whose famous dictum was ‘Africa for Africans’.
In , Chilembwe and Booth, headed for the United States of America, via London and Liverpool.
About 40 rebels were executed in the revolt's aftermath, and were imprisoned; Chilembwe was shot dead by a police patrol near the border on 3 February.In the US, Chilembwe was encouraged by African Americans to part with the now penniless Booth. Chilembwe, with the help of the Negro Baptist Convention, attended the Virginia Theological College. The failure of the Reconstruction period and the reaction of the Baptists to the Jim Crow laws would have an impact on Chilembwe.
In the US, he also met other future African leaders including John Dube, who later became president of South Af