Christians of the Copperbelt

Here is a surprising find -- a recent book on the internet archive, in full: Christians of the Copperbelt. For the purposes of this blog, the bonus is that the book has an index including a list of names of people who were influential in the early church on the Copperbelt of Northern Rhodesia.

This account by John V. Taylor and Dorothea A. Lehmann was published in 1961 as part of the World Mission Study series. The book is based on an eight and a half month study undertaken in 1958 and particularly at Nchanga Mine in Chingola and in the township of Kansuswa near Mufulira. Although mainly about the Copperbelt, the authors also worked in rural areas elsewhere in the country, including Northern and Luapula Provinces. The authors say that the time they allowed for their work was too little and that suspicion of political motive hampered their success in interviewing local people. Nevertheless, there will be much of interest here to anyone with missionary roots, to help understand the story of the growth of the Christian church in Zambia, particularly at the time of the transition to independence, and to help understand the impacts of urbanisation. Also of interest is the study of Alice Lenshina's Lumpa Church before its bloody clash with UNIP just before independence in 1964.

One of the more interesting tables for me is this one showing where and when various missions were operating in the territory:

Missionary organisations in Northern Rhodesia

I tried to read this book on-line and failed, then made a Kindle version, but still failed... at least, trying to read it and
make notes on a tablet has not worked for me, so I am just going to skip the analysis and post the names in the index.

My frustration in trying to read on a tablet whilst making notes also led me to write some software to generate my own index of sorts. I am sure I have made some mistakes, but I think the software-generated index may still be useful, so I offer it (without page numbers, I haven't worked on that yet) here. The software-generated index contains OCR errors, which I have not tried to fix, as knowing what these errors are may actually help you to find a reference in the book you would otherwise miss. (I'd have posted the actual index here, but blogger can't cope with this amount of text, so it's at dropbox.)

I hope to return to that code one of these days and see how I might refine it. All it is trying to find is proper nouns, in fact. For example, here is a software-generated index by relevance, with the most frequently occurring words identified as proper nouns at the bottom of the list.

And here is the index (minus page numbers) given in the book itself, with some corrections for OCR errors and with a few cross references added:

Persons, churches, organisations and places in the index

Abercorn

Actio's

Adamson, Mr

African Holy Spiritual Church

African Mineworkers' Union
African National Congress
African Reformed Church

AME Church
Anglican Church (see also UMCA)
Arnot, F.
Attwater, D.

Bamulonda 

Bana ba Mutima

Banda, J. 

Bancroft

Bedford, F.

Bell, Bishop G. K. A. 

Blood, A. G.

Booth, J.

Bradley, K. 

Brethren in Christ 

Broken Hill
Buell, R. L.
Bwana Mkubwa

Capricorn Africa Society 

Carson, Dr 

CCAR (Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia)

Childs, S. H. 

Chilembwe, J. 

Chingola 

Chinsali

Chintankwa, P.

Chipili

Chisanga

Chisholm, Dr J. 

Chitimukulu

Christian Council of Northern Rhodesia

Christian Missions in Many Lands See Plymouth Brethren
Church Missionary Society
Church of Christ
Church of Scotland Mission 

Coillard, F.
Comrie, W.
Copperbelt Christian Service Council

Cripps, A. S.
Cross, A. J. 

Cunnison

Dalgleish, A. 

Daly, Mr 

Davis, J. Merle 

Deerr, W. 

Dewar, A. 

Doke, C. M. and Miss O. C. 

Doke, J. J.
Dougall, J. W. C.

Draper, W. 

Dube, J. L. 

Dupont, Pere J. 

Dutch Reformed Church

Ellis, W. 

Epstein, A. L.

Fastness

Fisher, W., and family

Fison, J. E.

Forster, Sir John

Fort Jameson

Fort Rosebery

Franciscan Tertiaries

Fraser, Dr Agnes
Fraser, D. 

Fraser, George
Free Church of Scotland Mission

Gann, L. H. 

General Missionary Conference of Northern Rhodesia

Goodall N. 

Gore-Browne, Sir Stewart 

Graham-Harrison, Miss 

Greig, 

Griffiths, A. J. 

Griffiths, J.

Groves, C. P. 

Guillebaud, C. G.

Hailey, Lord 

Harris, C. 

Hawkins, D. 

Hewitt, G. 

Hine, Bishop J. E.

Icely, B. 

Ilondola

Jehovah's Witnesses
Jesuit Fathers 

Johnston, Sir Harry 

Jones, Picton 

Jourdain, Fr 

'Jesus Fanoily'

Kafulafuta, 16, 34

Kalene Hill

Kamungu, L.

Kamwana, E.

Kansuswa

Kasama
Kasenga, B.
Kashinda
Kasomo('s)
Katilungu, L.
Kaunda, K.
Kawambwa
Kazenibe(s')
Kitwe

Laws, Dr R.
Lenshina, Alice

Lewanika, King
Lewanika, G.
Lewin, J.
Lisulo, G.
Livingstone, David
Livingstonia
Lobengula
London Missionary Society 

Luanshya
Lubwa
Lumpa Church
Lusaka

MacLennan, Mr
MacPherson, F.
Marwick, M. G.
Mason, Philip
May, Bishop A.
Mbereshi 

McCulloch
Methodist Missions (see also AME Church)
Mindolo
Mines African Staffs' Association 

Mitchell, J. C.
Mitchell, Sir Phillip
Moffat, Sir John
Moffat, Mr and Mrs Malcolm
Moffat, Mr
Morris, Colin
Moore, R. J. B.
Mott, John R.
Mporokoso
Msidi
Mufulira 

Mulima
Mulolani
Murray, A.
Mushindo, P.
Mwanalesa (Mwana lesa)
Mwenzo
Mweru, Lake

Nchanga
Ndola 

New Apostolic Church 

Nielsen, E. 

Nightingale, Mr 

Nkana

Nkimibula, H. 

Nsensema('s)
Ntara, S. 

Nutter, H. C. 

Nyasa Industrial Mission

Oliver R.

Paris Evangelical Mission

Parr, M. 

Peng, Wang Shih 

Philips, Mr
Price, T. - see Shepperson G.

Plymouth Brethren 

Prain, Sir Ronald
Purves, A. D.

Quick, G.

Rain, S. 

Rhodes, Cecil 

Richards, Dr A. I. 

Richmond, A. H. 

Roman Catholic Church (see also Jesuit Fathers and White Fathers)

Ross, Mr and Mrs

Salisbury, Lord

Saluki 

Salvation Army 

Scott, Dr A.

Seventh Day Adventists 

Sharpe, A.
Shepperson, G., and Price, T. 

Smith, Edwin
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
Soulsby, J. G. 

South Africa General Mission 

South African Baptist Mission
South African Presbyterian Church

Spillett, H. W.
Sundkler, B. C. M. 

Syrier, Mrs M. B.

Taylor, Bishop Selby
Thompson, C. H.
Thompson, J.
Thompson, Wardlow

UCCAR (United Church of Central Africa in Rhodesia)

UMCA (Universities' Mission to Central Africa)

UMCB (United Missions in the Copperbelt)

UNIP 

USCL (United Society for Christian Literature)

Van der Post, L.
van Doom, C. L.
Vlek, T. C. B.

Watchtower Society - See Jehovah's Witnesses
Watt, J. A. R.
Welensky, Sir Roy
White Fathers (see also Ilondola)
Wilberforce Institute 

Wilson, G. and M.
Wood, Miss E. A.
Woodruff, H. W.
Wright, S.

Yamba, D.
Young, C.
Young, W. P.

Zambia Congress

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

Adolescents
Adultery, mystical danger of
Amalgamation

Baptism

Beerhalls

Bible

Bridewealth

Charms

Chiefs, ritual position of

Childhood, rural, urban
Choirs

Church attendance  collections, co-operation, finance, statistics, political participation by
Cizaa

Concession treaties
Co-operatives
Copper deposits

Discarding death (ukupose mfzoa)

Discipline

Divorce
Dreams

Education fear of

Family structure
Federation

Funerals

Grandparents

Hymns

Industrial advancement of Africans

Industrial disturbances

Initiation

Laity

Land alienation

Magic
Marriage, inter-tribal, rural, urban

Marriage laws
Materialism
Medicine (muti)

Middle class

Ministry, indigenous, training

Multi-racial clubs

Nalume

Names

Ng'anga (doctor)

Ngulu (spirits)

Nostalgia for rural life
Nyasalanders, as leaders

Partnership

Pietism

Polyandry

Polygyny

Prophet movements

Railway
Responsibility of Africans in the Church
Responsible government

Segregation, in society, in the Church
Sermons

Suicide

Sunday schools

Taxation

Tribal elders

Tribal representatives

Tribes, matrilineal, patrilineal,religious affiliation of

Twins

University of Salisbury

Value judgments
Vocation

Welfare societies
White collar workers
White man's religion
Witchcraft
Witchfinding
Women's organizations