Today, Mwase is probably best remembered as the author of a document later edited and published by Robert I. Rotberg in 1967 as "Strike a Blow and Die". This was an English translation of his 1932 essay comparing race relations in Nyasaland at the time of the Chilembwe uprising and the early 1930s, but it is most noteworthy for its second-hand account of that uprising and the motivation of John Chilembwe. Its authenticity and conclusions have been questioned by other scholars.