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A memorial being unveiled in Cape Town this week recognises the deaths of 1,772 predominantly Black non-combatants.

Tanganyika apparently had 120 black African graduates and no university at independence. Nyasaland (Malawi) had some 35 black graduates. In 1961 Nigeria had one university with 1,000 students. When ...

Chewanisation, Chewalisation or Chewafication are concepts that crudely refer to the domination of the majority Chewa over every tribe in Malawi, especially culturally (language being primo).

John Chilembwe, a man of conviction and clarity, was one such figure—a visionary whose deliberate choices reshaped the course of Nyasaland’s history. Chilembwe’s story begins as an ordinary ...

He had been deported from Southern Rhodesia in 1963 for his involvement in the nationalist cause there, while lecturing in the history department at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

As one British official, Hector Livingston Duff who served in the Nyasaland Field Force in World War I, wrote in 1925: “Can you wonder that [the carriers] suffered, and suffered terribly?

Chilembwe’s legacy is inextricably linked to the broader narrative of colonialism in Africa, particularly in the context of British rule in Nyasaland, now Malawi. His life and actions resonate deeply ...

The miner’s answer—“Our fight is here”—is true; but it is not enough. Musgrave’s dance is our dance—as surely as the “foreign war” the soldiers have deserted is Cyprus or Kenya or Nyasaland. Three ...