AFRICAN THEOLOGY IN IMAGES
Martin Ott
This book is a comprehensive study of the role of art in the process of inculturation in Africa. The dialogue of images between African and biblical symbols enriches the debate on contextualisation with unique forms of authentic Christian expression, faithful to the African and the Christian tradition.
ISBN 99908-16-30-1, Kachere Monograph No. 12, 604 pp, 70 illustr., 2000

DOING THEOLOGY AT THE GRASSROOTS
Theological Essays from Malawi
Patrick A. Kalilombe
The main themes of this book are the author’s missionary vocation, the critical role of “grassroots” in theological construction, the integrity of Chewa traditional belief and the combination of Catholic commitment with radical openness to all religious and cultural traditions.
ISBN 0-86922-733-5, 244 pp, Kachere Book No. 7, 1999

INDEPENDENT AFRICAN
John Chilembwe and the Nyasaland Rising of 1915
George Shepperson, Thomas Price
Independent African, first published in 1958, is still one of the few serious attempts to write a history of an African Rising against European rule south of the Sahara. The career of the Reverend John Chilembwe, leader of the Nyasaland Native Rising of 1915, anticipated many of the problems of later generations of African politicians.
ISBN 99908-16-26-9, Kachere Monograph No. 13, 574 pp, 2000
For the life of Joseph Booth, who baptized John Chilembwe and took him to America, see Harry Langworthy, The Life of Joseph Booth.

POLITICS AND CHRISTIANITY IN MALAWI 1975-1940
The Impact of the Livingstonia Mission on the Northern Province
John McCracken
Since its publication in 1977, it has been recognised as one of the most successful studies to be made of the impact of a Christian mission in Africa. In this new edition, John McCracken has added a new introduction and a bibliography covering publications from 1977.
ISBN 99908-16-24-5, Kachere Monograph No. 8, 376 pp, 2000
See also T. Jack Thompson, Touching the Heart

WISDOM OF THE PEOPLE
J.C. Chakanza
Even when Malawian society had not taken to writing, wisdom was never lacking, expressed mostly in proverbs. J.C. Chakanza has collected more than 2000 Nyanja (or, as others call it, Chewa) proverbs and presents an intriguing picture of the wisdom of a people in Central Africa.
ISBN 99908-16-35-2, Kachere Book No. 13, 411 pp, (expected April 2001)

MALAWI'S SECOND DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS
Process, Problems and Prospects
Martin Ott, Kings M. Phiri, Nandini Patel (eds.)
This book provides a critical evaluation of the crucial aspects of Malawi’s Second Democratic Elections. The different chapters take the elections as a litmus test for the state of democracy evaluating not only the electoral process as such, but also the performance of the political parties, the civil society, the media, the churches, and the use of political language.
ISBN 99908-16-15-8, Kachere Book No. 10, 227 pp, 2000/2001 (repr.)

LIVING DANGEROUSLY
A Memoir of Political Change in Malawi
Patrick O’Malley
The transition from one party dictatorship to democracy in Malawi was not easy for those who participated in it. Patrick O’Malley, an Irish Catholic priest, ultimately declared a prohibited immigrant, tells his story along with the story of many others who participated.
ISBN 99908-16-21-7, Kachere Book No. 11, 2000
See also Matthew Schoffeleers, In Search of Truth and Justice

HERO OF THE NATION
Masauko Chipembere, Robert Rotberg (ed.)
When Chiphembere felt that he was too young and inexperienced to lead Malawi to independence, he invited Kumuza Banda as the saviour, a move he was soon to regret, when the cabinet crisis of 1964 pushed him into armed resistance and exile. There he wrote his autobiography, leading up to the time close to independence. Professor Rotberg puts his whole life into perspective with a detailed introduction.
ISBN 99908-16-25-0, Kachere Book No. 12, expected May 2001

IN SEARCH OF TRUTH AND JUSTICE
Confrontations between Church and State in Malawi, 1992-1994
Matthew Schoffeleers
In a country where a dictator rules, tensions between church and state are programmed. Schoffeleers describes the first clashes of the Catholic Church with the dictatorship of Dr. Banda in the 1960s and then tells in detail the story of the peaceful revolution that was ushered in by the famous Lenten Pastoral Letter of 1992.
ISBN 99908-16-19-0, Kachere Book No. 8, 383 pp, 1999/2000 (repr.)

PREACHING THAT GRABS THE HEART
A Rhetorical-Stylistic Study of the Chichewa Revival Sermons of Shadrack Wame
Ernst R. Wendland
This book is an attempt to describe, despite the liability of still being a ‘foreigner’ in many respects, Shadrack Wame’s God-given gift of preaching in the hope that it will serve as an encouragement not only to him, but also to all messengers of the Lord’s Kingdom in Central Africa.
ISBN 99908-16-29-3, Kachere Monograph No. 11, 308 pp, 2000

ESSENTIAL AND PARAMOUNT REASONS FOR WORKING INDEPENDENTLY
Yesaya Zerenji Mwasi
In this book Yesaya Zerenji Mwasi sets the theological and ecclesiological vision for the Christian churches in Malawi for much of the twentieth century that has been adopted in one form or another by almost all the churches in Malawi.
ISBN 99908-16-16-6, Kachere Text No. 8, 31 pp, 1999

TOUCHING THE HEART
Xhosa Missionaries to Malawi
T. Jack Thompson
The early missionaries to Malawi were neither all from Europe nor all white. Jack Thompson tells the story of the Xhosa missionaries (the best known being William Koyi), who came to Malawi from Lovedale, South Africa as members of the Livingstonia Mission.
ISBN 86888-140-7, UNISA, 215 pp, 2000

MALAWI'S MUSLIMS
A Historical Perspective
David Bone (ed.)
Though Islam is a considerable force in Malawi, it has received little scholarly attention. David Bone makes accessible a collection of articles which, put together, give a fair overview of the beginnings of Islam in Malawi, of its development during the colonial period, of its situation after independence and in the recent Islamic revival.
ISBN 99908-16-14-X, Kachere Book No. 9, 306 pp, 2000

ISLAM WEEK IN MALAWI
J.C. Chakanza (ed.)
Though Islam came to Malawi one and a half centuries ago, knowledge about Islam is not widespread. In 1998 the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Malawi organized the “Islam in Malawi Week” in cooperation with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), Southern Africa Regional Office in Zomba. Major papers presented during that week are reproduced in this book.
ISBN 99908-43-01-4, Sources for the Study of Religion in Malawi No. 18, 40 pp, 2000

GUARDIANS OF THE LAND
J.M. Schoffeleers (ed.)
There are very few books in print on Traditional Religion in Central Africa. We are therefore happy to offer this reprint of the book Matthew Schoffeleers edited in 1979 in the Zambeziana Series on the traditional territorial cults that has become a classic in its own right over the years.
ISBN 0-86922-734-3, 315 pp, A Kachere Monograph, 1979/1999 (repr.)

THE QUEST FOR FRUITION THROUGH NGOMA
The Political Aspects of Healing in Southern Africa
Rijk van Dijk, Ria Reis, Marja Spierenburg (eds.)
Ngoma, a Southern African ritual of healing, dance, rhythm and rhyme, is at the heart of social efforts to change the fortunes of individuals and communities so that well-being is restored. The book contains a critical examination of earlier studies of this phenomenon.
ISBN 0-85255-263-7, A Kachere Monograph, 172 pp, 2000 - In Europe: James Currey, In USA: Ohio University Press

TRANSFORMING PSALMS
Richard Gordon
There is no book in the bible which more accurately reflects all the varieties of human behaviour than the Psalms. Those who wrote them had experienced life with all its vicissitudes. There are angry psalms and contented psalms, there are psalms about success and psalms about failure. There are psalms about riches and poverty, psalms about greed and generosity, about coping and not coping. This book shares the author’s love of the psalms with the reader.
ISBN 99908-16-32-8, Kachere Studies No.1, 107 pp, 2000

SEPARATE BUT SAME GOSPEL
Preaching in African Instituted Churches in Southern Malawi
Hilary Mijoga
Kachere Series recommends this book to those who are interested in how the Bible is read and interpreted in Africa and to those who are interested in the African Independent Churches. Hilary Mijoga establishes that there is no difference between the African Independent preachers studied and mainline preachers when it comes to reading and interpreting the Bible.
ISBN 99908-16-23-3, Kachere Studies No. 3, 208 pp, 2000

DIGGING OUT THE ANCESTRAL CHURCH
Researching and Communicating Church History
Steven Paas
This study helps to form an idea of the characteristics and the aims of Church History. It deals with the sources of historical events and with the sciences and tools that help to discover them. Those who want to write theses or papers will be particularly assisted by the concluding chapters on the process of historical research, the ways of communicating results, and the organisation of scholarly publications.
ISBN 99908-16-32-8, Kachere Studies No. 2, 71 pp, 2000

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