George Shepperson

**George "Sam" Albert Shepperson** (January 7, 1922 - April 2, 2020) wakaŵa wakulemba mbiri wa ku Britain ndipo wakumanya vya Africa, wakumanyikwa chomene na milimo yake pa mbiri ya Malawi na African-American. Wakaŵa William Robertson Professor of Commonwealth and American History pa University of Edinburgh kufuma mu 1963 mpaka 1986. Mu 1989, wakapika zina lakuti Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

## Umoyo Wakwambilira
George "Sam" Shepperson wakababika mu Peterborough, Northamptonshire mu 1922, mwana wa munthu wakukhozga vinthu. Wakasambira ku King's School, Peterborough, ndipo wakasambira History na English ku St John's College, Cambridge. Wakati wamalizga uteŵeti wake wa pa nkhondo, wakasambira masambiro ghapachanya. Wakaŵa mu gulu la Northamptonshire Regiment mu 1943, ndipo wakaŵa mu gulu la King's African Rifles kufuma mu 1943 mpaka 1946 nga ni mulara wa gulu la 13th (Nyasaland) Battalion, ilo likaŵa ku Kenya, Tanganyika, Ceylon, India na Burma. Apo wakaŵa ku East Africa, wakamba kutemwa comene mbiri ya ufumu wa Britain na Africa. Wakamba kusambizga vya Ufumu wa Britain na America pa Yunivesite ya Edinburgh mu 1948 ndipo wakasankhika kuŵa William Robertson Chair mu 1963, ndipo wakafumapo mu 1986. Wakaŵa pulofesa wakwendakwenda pa Roosevelt University na University of Chicago, Rhode Island College, iyo sono ni Makerere University na Dalhousie University. Mu 1987, wakapokera digiri ya udokotala kufuma ku yunivesite ya York. Mu 1990 wakacemeka Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland.

Shepperson wakaŵa nkhwantha ya mbiri ya ŵanthu ŵa ku Africa, mbiri ya ŵanthu ŵa ku Africa na kuthandazgika kwawo pa charu chose ndipo wakapokera chawanangwa cha 'Distinguished Africanist' mu 2007 kufuma ku African Studies Association of the United Kingdom. Wakasambiranga chomene mbiri ya Malawi, kweni wakalembangaso vya mbiri ya ŵanthu ŵa ku Africa na America (ndipo wakaŵa mulongozgi wa British Association for American Studies kufuma mu 1971-74) na mbiri ya ŵanthu ŵa ku Britain (mwakudumura ya ŵanthu ŵa ku Scotland). Mabuku ghanandi agho wakalemba, kusazgapo gha John Chilembwe na Chilembwe uprising, ghakuwoneka kuti ghakaŵa ghakovwira chomene. Buku lakuti Independent African: John Chilembwe and the Origins, Setting and Significance of the Nyasaland Native Rising 1915 (1958) ndilo likaŵa lakwamba kulembeka pa nkhani ya mdauko wa ku Africa. Shepperson wakalongosora umo umoyo wake ukaŵira pakuŵa wakulemba mdauko wa ŵanthu ŵa ku Africa, ndipo wakalemba buku lakuti The Emergence of African History at British Universities: An Autobiographical Approach (1995, ilo likalembeka na Anthony Kirk-Greene).

Mu 1989, wakapokera chawanangwa cha CBE pakuŵa mulaŵiliri wa Komiti ya ku Scotland ya Commonwealth Institute..

## Mabuku ghanyake

* 'Education sponsors freedom—the story of African native John Chilembwe' *Negro history bulletin*, v. 15, Jan. 1952.
* 'Ethiopianism and African nationalism'. *Phylon*, v. 14, (1953)
* 'Frederick Douglass and Scotland', *The Journal of African American History*, 38, 3 (1953).
* *Independent African: John Chilembwe and the Origins, Setting and Significance of the Nyasaland Native Rising 1915* (with Thomas Price) (1958, 5th edition 1987)
* 'Notes on Negro American Influences on the Emergence of African Nationalism', *The Journal of African History*, 1, 2 (1960).
* 'External factors in the development of African nationalism, with particular reference to British Central Africa'. *Phylon*, v. 22 (1961)
* 'Pan-Africanism and "Pan-Africanism": Some Historical Notes', *Phylon*, 23, No. 4 (1962).
* 'The Negro and the New Frontier', *The Political Quarterly*, 33, 2 (1962).
* 'Abolitionism and African Political Thought', *Transition* 12 (1964).
* *David Livingstone and the Rovuma: A notebook edited with introduction and related documents* (1965).
* 'The African diaspora: or Africa abroad', *African Forum*, 2 (1966)
* *Myth and reality in Malawi* (1966)
* *West African Countries and Peoples* by Africanus Horton (editor) (1969)
* 'Introduction' to *The Negro* by W.E.B. Du Bois (1970)
* 'Mungo Park and the Scottish Contribution to Africa', *African Affairs*, 70, (1971)
* *Joseph Booth and the African Diaspora* (1972)
* 'Kipling and the Boer War' in John Goss (ed.) *Kipling: The man, his work and his world* (1972)
* *Scotland, Europe, and the American Revolution* (co-edited with Owen Dudley Edwards) (1976)
* 'America through Africa and Asia', *Journal of American Studies*,  Vol. 14, No. 1, BAAS Jubilee Issue (Apr., 1980).
* 'The Fifth Pan-African Conference, 1945 and the All African Peoples Congress, 1958,'(with St. Clare Drake), *Contributions in Black Studies*, 8,  5 (1986)
* 'Malawi and the Poetry of Two World Wars,' *The Society of Malawi Journal*, 43, 2 (1990).
* 'African Diaspora: Concept and Context' in *Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora*, edited by Joseph E. Harris (1993).
* 'Paul Robeson in Edinburgh'. *University of Edinburgh Journal*. 37-38 (1998).
* 'Memories of Dr Banda', *The Society of Malawi Journal* 51, 1 (1998).
* 'Degree Award Oration', *The Society of Malawi Journal*, 56, 1 (2003).
* 'Islam in Central Africa: A Historiographical Document', *The Society of Malawi Journal*, 59, 2 (2006).
* 'A Major Chilembwe Letter', *The Society of Malawi Journal*, 68, 1 (2015).
* 'Dr John McCracken: A personal tribute', *The Society of Malawi Journal*, 71, 1 (2018).

## Ukaoni


## Kuŵerenga

* Angus Calder, 'The Making of *Schwarzer Orpheus*: Janheinz Jahn and George Shepperson', *Journal of Commonwealth Literature* (1980).
* Cedric Robinson, 'Notes toward a "Native" Theory of History', *Review (Fernand Braudel Center)* 4, 1 (1980).
* 'Ourselves as Others: Some Comments on Cedric Robinson on George Shepperson', *Review* (Fernand Braudel Center) 4, 1 (1980).

## Vigaŵa vya kuwaro

* Interview at the Archives of the Imperial War Museum
* Shepperson's opening address at the "Chilembwe Revisited Symposium" (University of Edinburgh, 7 February 2015)
* Profile at Edinburgh University Library