African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc. African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc. The African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc. is the oldest continuously existing Baptist organization in the Republic of Malawi, with roots in the earliest mission work of Joseph Booth (1892) and is a successor to the Providence Baptist Mission (1900). In 1891, the British government established the Nyasaland Protectorate. In 1964 this land became the independent nation of the Republic of Malawi. The first known Baptist work in Nyasaland/Malawi was by the English Joseph Booth (1851-1932). Booth was responsible for all of the earliest Baptist work, as well as for the entrance of some
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland central economic motive behind the CAF (or amalgamation) had always been the abundant copper deposits of Northern Rhodesia. Unlike the Rhodesias, Nyasaland had no sizeable deposits of minerals and its tiny community of Europeans, largely Scottish, was relatively sympathetic to African aspirations. Its inclusion in the Federation was always more a symbolic gesture than a practical necessity. Ironically, it was to be largely Nyasaland and its African population where the impetus for destabilization of the CAF arose, leading to its dissolution. Despite its convoluted government structure, the CAF economy was a success. In the first year of the federation, its