Zambesi Mission (ZM) celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2017.
It was established in 1892 as a self-supporting, self-propagating mission in Malawi (formerly Nyasaland), a place then described as ‘beyond the habitation of white men’.
Ahead of his time
Mercifully, the mission’s founder Joseph Booth was years ahead of his time when, writing in 1897 in a paper called ‘Africa for the African’, he shared his views about equal rights for Africans, who he regarded as best placed to spread the gospel in their lands.
