African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc. Mission. After Chilembwe was killed on February 4, 1915, while leading an uprising against British authority, the government banned the "Providence Mission". Today the nation of Malawi regards and honors Chilembwe as a martyr. His face appears on the 200 Kwacha (Malawian currency). In 1926, the British government allowed the "Providence Industrial Mission" to be reopened under Daniel S. Malekbu (ca.1890-1978). Malekbu had been trained in medical and Bible school in the United States. In 1945 he led Baptists to form the National Baptist Assembly of Africa, Nyasaland, which is now known as the African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc..
Nyasaland of former Crown Lands were sold as freehold land or leased, and almost 400,000 acres more originally in Certificates of Claim were sold or leased in holdings whose average size was around 1,000 acres, many representing smaller farms of Europeans coming to Nyasaland after the First World War to grow tobacco. As late as 1920, a Land Commission set up by the Nyasaland authorities proposed further land alienation to promote the development of small to medium size European plantations from the 700,000 acres of Crown Land which it said were available after the present and future needs of the African