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unusual facts about John Chilembwe


John Chilembwe

An American pamphlet of 1914 claimed that John Chilembwe was born in Sangano, Chiradzulu District in the south of what became Nyasaland, in June, 1871.


Abrahams Commission

John Chilembwe (1871 – 1915) was a Baptist minister, who returned to Nyasaland after education at the Virginia Theological Seminary and College, (now Virginia University of Lynchburg) in 1900 and founded the Providence Industrial Mission.


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