Blantyre Mission and the making of modern Malawi
By: Andrew C. Ross.
Series: Kachere monograph ;; no. 1
Publisher: Christian Literature Association in Malawi; Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Blantyre [Malawi]; Bonn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Blantyre Mission.; Church of Scotland -- Missions -- Malawi -- Blantyre Region.; Malawi -- History.
Description: When a thousand leading members of the Nyasaland African Congress were detained under the emergency regulations imposed by the Federation government in 1959, the Presbyterian chaplains who ministered to them at Kanchedza Camp in Limbe were the late Rev Jonathan Sangaya and Rev Andrew C. Ross. They soon discovered that around 700 of the thousand men were members of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian.

This raised a question in the mind of the recently arrived Scottish missionary: how may we account historically for the fact than so many national leaders were Presbyterians? The quest to answer that question led him to produce the thorough examination of the foundation and early history of the Blantyre Mission of the Church of Scotland which is found in this book.

Written in the mid-1960s, it remains today an indispensable work of reference for understanding the history of both church and nation in Malawi.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-205) and index.
Revised version of the authors PhD thesis.