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First Name
Dorothy
Last Name
Tembo
Country
Malawi
State
Affiliation
University of Malawi
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Keywords
Colonial and Mission History, Ethnic Identities, Gender, Ethnicity.
Availability
1
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PhD
PhD

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Recent Publications

Dorothy Tembo, “Mission Rivalries, Conflicts, and the Construction of Protestant Christian Identities in Colonial Malawi” International Bulletin of Mission Research, April, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393231182440

Dorothy Tembo, “Christian Femininity in Independent Africa”, in The Palgrave Handbook of Christianity in Africa from Apostolic Times to the Present, eds. Andrew Eugene Barnes, Toyin Falola, Springer International Publishing, 2024

Dorothy Tembo, “Lenshina Alice Mulenga: The Spirit of Resistance and Liberation”, in African Women Legends and the Spirituality of Resistance, eds. Musa Dube, Telesia Musili, Slyvia Owusu-Ansah, Routledge, 2024

Dorothy Tembo, “God, missionaries and race in colonial Malawi” Journal of Southern African Studies, November 2022 https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2022.2177437

Dorothy Tembo, “Protestant Missionaries’ Understanding of and Attitude toward African Religion in Colonial Malawi”, International Bulletin of Mission Research, October, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1177/23969393221098142

Dorothy Tembo, “Mission education and its impact on the construction of African social identities in colonial Malawi (1875–1935)” in Education, Communication and Democracy in Africa;
A Democratic Pedagogy for the Future, ed. Chikumbutso Herbert Manthalu, Victor Chikaipa, Anthony Mavuto Gunde, London:Routledge, 2021

Dorothy Tembo, “Missionaries and the Construction of Christian Homes: Examining the Formation of African Social Identities in Colonial Malawi,” International Bulletin of Mission Research, April 19, 2021,  https://doi.org/10.1177/2396939320987554.

Dorothy Tembo, “‘They Were Kept Outside but Their Interest Was Inside’:: An Examination of the Role of African Women in the Construction of Social Identities in Colonial Malawi,” in Politics, Christianity and Society in Malawi, ed. Kenneth R. Ross et al., Essays in Honour of John McCracken (Mzuni Press, 2020), 191–214, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10h9frg.15.

Dorothy Tembo, “Missionaries and the Standardisation of Vernacular Languages in Colonial Malawi, 1875-1935”, The Society of Malawi Journal, 2020, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26978897

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Malawi
Expertise by Geography
Africa
Expertise by Chronology
20th century
Expertise by Topic
Colonialism, Gender, Religion