Africa for the African: The Life of Joseph Booth (Ceest Book Series, 10, 10)

Religion & Spirituality

Langworthy, Harry

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

Kachere Series

Joseph Booth penned his appeal in 1897 in protest of the racist stereotpying of the Africans by the colonisers; and witnessing the unjust and inhumane exploitation of the native peoples, for the sole benefit of the Europeans. He drew his ideas from the social and political messages he inferred from the Gospel and his appeal was published only thirteen years after European leaders met in Berlin to divide up the African continent. This now seminal text was republished in its centenary year and has continual relevance to debates about race and development in Africa. It is edited to include explanations of local and contemporary political references, biblical references and the sources of the author's citations.

Africa for the African (Ceest Book Series, 12, 12)

History

Booth, Joseph

Africa

The Doctrine of Atonement for Building Human Rights in Malawi

Thipa, Joseph Andrew

Christian Books & Bibles

Secularization in Malawi and Britain: A Compatative Inquiry (Kachere Books)

Gama, Billy

World

The story of an unusual missionary. Joseph Booth published a book in 1897 demanding independence for Malawi and played a key role in inspiring an anti-colonial rising eighteen years later. This book tells of his activities in Malawi, South Africa and Lesotho and of his efforts to find support for his cause in Australia, Britain and the USA.

Africa for the African - The Life of Joseph Booth (Progress in Neural Processing)

There is a long history of Islam in Malawi, which precedes Christianity; and Muslims constitute about fifteen percent of the country's population. However Muslims and Islam in Malawi have until relatively recently remained low profile, and there has been little research or documentation of their history. This collection of essays traces the history of Muslim culture in Malawi, looking at for example: how Islam spread to Malawi within the context of the expansion of Islan in East Africa; how Islam developed; and how the Christian churches responded. Further contributions address Islam in Nyasaland in 1910; Kanyenda and the Swahili challenge; Mohammedanism and the Yaos in 1991; the Yao Tariqa and the Sukuti movements; the problems of Islamic education; and the growth of a political and commercial Muslim elite.

Malawi's Muslims: Historical Perspectives

Reference

Martin Ott

Nandini Patel

Words, Language & Grammar

In the early 1990s, the church in Malawi mounted concerted and public opposition to the regime of Hastings Banda. The Catholic bishops issued a Lenten pastoral letter, which ignited the processs that led to a democratic election. This record of the story through the 1960s onwards is about a church discovering its mandate, and struggling to live with it. The record is a chronicle of events and developments before and after the publication of the bishops' Lenten letter, It also contains the literal text, in part or in full, of important statements and docucments issued by the parties concerned.

In Search of the Truth and Justice

Business & Money

Schoffeleers, Professor Matthew

Schoffeleers, J M

Economics

This is a comprehensive study of the role of art in the process of inculturation in Africa. The dialogue of images between African and biblical symbols enriches the debate on contextualisation with unique forms of authentic Christian expression, faithful to the African and Christian tradition. During the past twenty years, one art centre has been truly outstanding in its local African and Christian identity and its development of new ways to express it: the KuNgoni Art Craft Centre in Malawi. In paintings, carvings and colourful liturgical celebrations the centres artists have discovered and developed a unique mode of expression which is both African and Christian. The objectives of the study are to be the first systematic theology constructed in and from Malawi; to establish a theology of symbolic expression in Africa; and to serve as a substantial contribution toward a theology of inculcation in Africa.

African Theology in Images

Ott, Martin

Teen & Young Adult

Researched under difficult and sometimes dangerous circumstances during the Banda era this book is a unique contribution to anthropological research in Malawi Orginally published in 1976 this new edition has been throughly reworked and edited at a time when many of the domains described by Van Breugel were in a process of decline transformation or even disappearance The book offers precious descriptions of rain rituals at Bunda and Tsang oma explications of witchcraft phenomena and of the mdulu complex a convincing theory of the religious significance of Nyau and extensive deliberations of concepts of God and ancestors In addition the book serves as a comprehensive overview on all the domains of Chewa Traditional Religion

Chewa Traditional Religion (Coleccion Comuna)

Breugel, J.Van

The first full-length study of one of the territorial rain cults; and an endeavour to preserve knowledge about a rapidly changing complex system of traditional beliefs, rituals, and practices, under the influence of Christianity, Islam, and western education. Within this cult, a person who is possessed by the spirit of the ancestors is commonly known as Bimbi: the seer, a charismatic and moral leader, to whom the community ascribes a prophetic role. As a religious system, the Bimbi cult has an intricate system of agricultural rituals such as rainmaking ceremonies, a distinctive unwritten theology, elaborate liturgical observances and an organised, inherited priesthood. Studying the Bimbi cult from a multi-disciplinary perspective, the author illustrated how traditional beliefs and practices still have a grip on people in the countryside, who live in an agricultural subsistence economy, and at the mercy of ecological forces. He contends that these forces will continue to shape their understanding of God, themselves and the world around them for many years to come, unless these people change from an agricultural to an industrial society.

African Traditional Religion In Malawi The Case Of The Bimbi Cult

James N. Amanze

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