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for the first time to-day, 'Negro', a word which, because of its origin
in the Atlantic slave trade, gives offence to black peoples, would not
be used. In the last chapter, 'the Chilembwe movement and Negro
history' would become 'the Chilembwe movement and black history'.
However to preserve the atmosphere of the time at which Independent
African was written, the older nomenclature and spelling is retained.


NOTES AND REFERENCES TO FOREWORD
1. Op. cit., p. 46.
2. Recorded sarcasm by Europeans towards Chilembwe and other leading
Africans began back in the days when Nyasaland was known as the British Central
Africa Protectorate: for example, "'A New Opera for the Protectorate'", The Central
African Times ( Blantyre), 26 January 1903, p. 13.
3. Alfred Hutchinson, Road to Ghana ( London, 1966), p. 126. The book
mentioned is clearly the first, 1958 edition of Independent African.
4. Report of the Nyasaland Commission of Inquiry ( London, Cmnd. 814, 1959),
p. 1.
5. Ibid., p. 9.
6. Strike a Blow and Die. A Narrative of Race Relations in Colonial Africa by
George Simeon Mwase, edited and introduced by Robert I. Rotberg ( Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1967).
7. Compare G. F. G. Stanley, Louis Riel. Patriot or Rebel? ( Ottawa, 1967);
Thomas Flanagan, Louis 'David' Riel: Prophet of the New World ( Toronto, 1979);
and Bob Beal and Rod Macleod, Prairie Fire. The 1885 North West Rebellion
( Edmonton, 1984), etc.
8. Preface to Shaw, Androcles and the Lion ( 1916), quoted in Prefaces by Bernard
Shaw ( London, 1938), p. 602.
9. J. Ayo Langley, Ideologies of Liberation in Black Africa 1856-1870 ( London,
1979), pp. 394-5.
10. Report, op. cit., p. 8.
11. Stanley Gibbons Catalogues ( London): Malawi, 1965, numbers 238-41.
For a critical reaction to this issue, which may be compared to the Cassandara Vates
quotation, op. cit., see H. S. Watson, "'Remarks on new issues'", Rhodesian Study
Circle Journal ( Southampton), May 1965, No. 55, p. 13.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Independent African: John Chilembwe and the Origins, Setting, and Significance of the Nyasaland Native Rising of 1915. Contributors: George Shepperson - author, Thomas Price - author. Publisher: University Press. Place of Publication: Edinburgh. Publication Year: 1958. Page Number: xi.
    
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