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 Emergency 1959 to Federation, but otherwise quite moderate and far less radical that the younger Congress members. Although the Nyasaland African Congress was at first based in Blantyre, many branches were established in the Northern Province after 1955. Schemes to prevent cutting down and burning trees to assist the cultivation of finger millet, and to restrict the numbers of cattle owned, had begun in that region in 1938, but from 1947 they were increasingly enforced through fines. From 1951, unpaid work on schemes designed to prevent soil erosion was imposed by the Nyasaland government. Resistance to these measures created a climate of