Africa General Service Medal, 1902-56, clasp, Nyasaland 1915 to 1st King's African Rifles
783 Pte Kamwendo Depot Coy 1/K.A.R.
Unevenly toned, otherwise good very fine condition.
Private Kamwendo is confirmed on the medal roll of the Depot Company, 1st Battalion, King’s African Rifles.
In early 1915, the Reverend John Chilembwe led a brief but violent uprising in the British colony of Nyasaland (modern-day Malawi). Chilembwe had studied in the United States and returned to Nyasaland in 1900, where he had established the Providence Industrial Mission and a series of independent schools in the Shire Highlands, an area populated with white-owned plantations where African workers experienced discrimination and violence. An advocate of African advancement and social and racial equality, Chilembwe combined evangelicalism with a strong anti-colonial view.
