Frequent website users should periodically check this page for website changes

A special note on 1st January 2022: Hereafter I only plan to make small changes to the website. I will, however, continue indefinitely to maintain it in its present form as my health allows. 

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22nd November 2022:  A very special note for all remaining serious users of this website. As noted some months ago, my health necessitated that I stop updating the website. Several months ago in early October, however, I received some very fascinating materials about the Jakeman family, Luampa missionaries for many decades starting in the 1920s. For any scholar interested in Luampa, please complete the form “You and Me: Should We Connect” at the end of this website and I will send you the contact address of the person who sent me this amazing material (even includes an “ancient” video) to enable you to correspond.

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In the period from late 2019 to mid-2021, dominated by Covid-19, I have spent much of my time writing four articles (including the book review), along with links to three. All this will enable users to read them here: Other things to note are:

Dick Jaeger’s new Kasempa materials (especially on Jesse Sandasanda), along with a few minor corrections by Margaret O’Callaghan, were added in late 2019. See Dick Jaeger’s webpage.

Philip Muke: Photograph

Philip Muke w/wife and son

  • Philip Muke’s son, Phillip Muke Jr., and I have exchanged emails since March 2020 about his father. He says that after leaving Solwezi Secondary School, his father worked on the Zambia Railways as a Supervisor – Carriage and Wagon Examiners for several decades. He died after retiring 18 years ago.
  • This photo here shows Philip, his wife and the son (soon 54) as a tiny baby. Philip’s wife, shown in the photo, was a judge. Phillip Jr. has been married over 25 years, has three children and his own wife is also a judge. See more information on the Solwezi page. Although my student, Philip was my age and a good friend.

Margaret O’Callaghan’s new materials (selected) on copper mining in the NWP:

Four Articles (including the book review) since 2019. I have pleasantly surprised myself that I have been mentally and physically able in the past four years to write these articles after my 78th birthday. (They include the book review which has been on the website for about the last three years.) The first two articles on George Suckling and Dr. Walter Fisher have been available as pdf files for the last year. The fourth article (a literature review) was published in late 2021 and has just been added (January 2022) to this website.

  • My book review in Anthropology Southern Africa of Iva Peša’s recent book: Roads through Mwinilunga: A History of Social Change in Northwest Zambia, Leiden, Brill 2019, pp.14-16. Click this pdf link to read it > Pesa Review_15 April 2020
  • My first (of three) academic articles published under my abridged name, P. David Wilkin, all in the Brethren Historical Review, “Education at Chitokoloki, 1914-1924: The Vision of George Suckling,” Volume 15 (December 2019), pp. 12-39: Click this pdf link to read it > George Suckling
  • “Dr. Walter Fisher, an Ilomba, and the Spanish ‘Flu Pandemic,” Volume 16 (December 2020), pp. 139-157: Click this pdf link to read it > Fisher_Ilomba
  • “Deep in the Heart of Africa: A Descriptive Bibliography of Literature on the Beloved Strip in Zambia,” Volume 17 (December 2021), pp. 100-124. (Unfortunately it is printed horizontally.) Click this pdf link to read it > NWP Biblio late 2021_horizonta2

2019 major additions and changes

  • Mid-2019: A new page (with photos) of my African Art collection, see: NWP Art.
  • Early-2019: Materials on Zambezi Boarding Secondary School (ZBSS) and its literacy project, now visit: Zambezi 2019-1930s. Also on the same new Zambezi page are old 1936 photos of ordinary life and living in Zambezi District. These were taken by a colonial officer, Thomas George Clayton Vaughan-Jones. While neither the 1936 photos nor the current material on ZBSS are related, they do provide an interesting time contrast of the district.

2018 major additions and changes

  • The website’s overall “look and feel” has changed. It is now easier to read on i-phones and i-pads thanks to AVADA, the website’s new theme.
  • Cinderella to Princess. Plans for this page abruptly changed following the tragic passing of Patrick Sapallo in May 2018 following surgery. He had a vision for this page, and planned to completely write it. This, however, was not to be. All of us: family, friends and researchers are the poorer for his passing. After much thought, In August 2018, I did my best to complete it while reflecting on Patrick’s life and love for the NWP. It is both a memorial to him as well as a commentary about the NWP’s economy in the last few years.
  • Between May 2018 and the end of the year, many less obvious changes have been made on five website pages to make them more helpful to scholars:
    • Prologue — rewritten and photos added.
    • Solwezi and Zambezi — many vignettes (pdf formats) from my 50+ year old correspondence giving precise dates about when events took place plus the old Balovale school logo and a diagram of the headmaster’s house in 1965.
    • Syracuse University (SU), Kenya and Lusaka — a four page narrative about a sentimental 1970 Xmas trip from Kenya to the NWP, Zambia and Dar es Salaam.
    • Kasempa by Dick Jaeger — updated with assorted text and photos to supplement Dick’s large 97 page pdf file. All of these materials can be freely used by anyone — either scholars or general users interested in Kasempa and Kaonde history.
    • UNZA in the NWP: 1975-79 — On 22 Dec. I added a 26 pp. pdf file with selected personal correspondence. This material may assist scholars wishing precise dates for these important years that included the Mushala rebellion and the refugee camps for both Angolans and Rhodesians fleeing their countries.
2016 & 2017: web pages added and amended
  • February 2017: hundreds of articles on new schools opened by the Brethren and SAGM between the 1910s and 1940s. Note: these new webpages are under “Academic Writings and Sources.” (Click one of these direct links: Brethren schools or SAGM schools)
  • March 2017: A webpage created for Dick Jaeger: “Fifty Years of Kasempa District: 1964-2014.” (Click: Kasempa by Dick Jaeger)
  • 2016. a) Over 200 pictures taken by Alexander Nisbet. Click:” Nisbet; b) NWP Videos by Patrick Sapallo; especially his makishi video. Click: Videos; and c) Correspondence between Muriel Williams Sanderson and David Wilkin. Click: Muriel