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Elliot Kenan Kamwana Achirwa, also known as Masokwa Elliot Kenan Kamwana Chirwa or Elliot Kenan Kamwana Msokwa Chirwa, generally known as Elliot Kenan Kamwana (c. 1872–1956), was an African Prophet in Nyasaland (now Malawi) who sought rapid social change and who introduced the Watch Tower movement (later known as the Jehovah's Witnesses) into Central Africa and popularized it there. He was one of three Africans sponsored by Joseph Booth, an English missionary who created independent churches in Nyasaland in the early 20th century, the other two being John Chilembwe and Charles Domingo. Unlike Chilembwe, Kamwana did not favour armed revolt as he was a pacifist, but he was more radical in his quest for rapid African advancement than the more moderate Domingo. The independent church he created, the "Mlonda", or Watchman Healing Mission, ended all links with the Watch Tower movement in the United States in 1937. Some daughter churches split from Mlonda after Kamwana's death in 1956, but it still exists in several Central African countries.[1][2]

  1. ^ Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo (1986) in Robin H. Palmer, The Making of Modern Africa: The Twentieth Century, 1986
  2. ^ Robert A. Hill (1986)The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association ... - p. 35,

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