Malawi | Languages |
     Subject 
  
        Subject Source: Local sources
      
        Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander Gillon Macalpine. Malawi missionary papers and linguistic studies
     Fonds 
  
    
      Identifier: Coll-48
    
      Scope and Contents
        The papers at MSS 3086-3090 consist of biographical notes on African and missionary colleagues dating from 1893; diaries from 1897 onwards; wayside and journey notes and jottings; extracts from newspapers; notes on folklore; letters; film strip showing pictures of missionary work; notebooks; and, correspondence with church ministers in Scotland. There are printed items, including the catechism and hymns in the Chitonga language; psalms in Tonga; dictionaries; the grammar of the Bemba...
    
    
        Dates: 
      1893-1964
    
  Papers of Kenneth Mackenzie
     Fonds 
  
    
      Identifier: Coll-64
    
      Scope and Contents
        Contains material relating to Central Africa, 1958-64, and to Rhodesia, 1965-70. There is material on South Africa particularly on apartheid, the Springbok tour, and arms for South Africa; Congo; race relations; colour and citizenship; the United Nations; the UK; and, Sweden and other countries. There are newspaper cuttings and also pamphlets, the latter on African independence, the Church, Sweden, the rule of law, politics, immigration, Rhodesia, South Africa, and international agencies. In...
    
    
        Dates: 
      1958-1971
    
  
    Papers of Robert Laws
     Fonds 
  
    
      Identifier: Coll-75
    
      Scope and Contents
        
    The Papers of Robert Laws consist of notebooks and papers mainly relating to the work of the Livingstonia Mission in Nyasaland (now Malawi), including notebooks on African languages. There is correspondence and other papers and also printed items including translations from the Bible and grammars.
        Dates: 
      c 1875-1934
    
  