A Researcher's Bibliography on References to the Yao People of Africa Abdallah. Y., The Yaos; Chiikala cha WaYao, (ed), M. Sanderson, London: Frank Cass, 1973. Alpers, E., "Trade, and Society among the Yao in the Nineteenth Century", Journal of African History, 10, (3) (1969), pp. 405-420. Bone, D. S., "Islam in Malawi", Journal of Religion in Africa, vol. 13, (2), (1982), pp. 126-138. Bone, D. S. "The Development of Islam in Malawi and the Response of the Christian Churches: 1940-1986.", BICMURA, vol. 5, (4), (1987), pp. 7-24. Boucher, C., "Birth Rites", Mua Mission, unpublished. Boucher, C., "Jando", Mua Mission, unpublished. Boucher, C., "Msondo", Mua Mission, unpublished. Boucher, C., "Yao Chieftainship", Mua Mission, unpublished. Chaponda, O., "The Christianised Yao Initiation Rite of Mangochi Catholic Diocese: Assessing an Experiment in Inculturation", M.A. module, Chancellor College, Zomba, 1999. Dicks, I., "The Islamisation of the Yao of Malawi", M.A. Module, Chancellor College, 1998. Fiedler, K., Christianity and African Culture; Conservative German Protestant Missionaries in Tanzania, 1900-1940, Leiden/New York/Koln: E. J. Brill, 1996. Greenstein, R., "The Nyasalands Policy Toward's African Muslims", From Nyasaland to Malawi, (ed), R.J. MacDonald, Nairobi: East Africa Publishing House, 1975, pp. 144-168 Heckel, B., "The Yao Tribe; Their Culture and Education", in Institute of Education Reports, London: Oxford University Press, 1935, pp. 8-42. Hetherwick, A., A Hand book of the Yao Language, Aberdeen: 1889. Hetherwick, A., "Some Animistic Beliefs among the Yaos of British Central Africa", Journal of Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 32, (1902), pp. 89-95. Hetherwick, A., "Islam and Christianity in Nyasaland", Muslim World, vol. 17, (2), (April 1927) pp.184-186. Hetherwick, A., The Gospel and the African; Croall Lectures, Edinburgh: T and T. Clark, 1932. Ibik, J. O., The Law of Marriage and Divorce; The Yao, London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1970. Johnson, W., "Mohammedism and the Yaos". Central Africa, vol. 339, (March, 1911), pp. 57-61. King, N. Q. and Fiedler K. (eds), R.. Lamburn- From a Missionary's Notebook: The Yao of Tunduru, Fort Lauderdale: Verlag Breitenbach, 1991. Kubik, G., "Boy's Circumcision School of the Yao; Malawi South Eastern Africa", Gottingen: Ethnol, vol. 9/1-D1244, (1979), pp. 3-19. Lamba, I. C., "The Missionary and Ethnography in Malawi; a Study of Malawi and the Yao to 1920", Society of Malawi Journal, vol. 38, (1), (1985), pp. 62-79. Mair, L., "A Yao Girl's Initiation", Man, 98, (May, 1951), pp. 60-63. Martin, B., Muslim Brotherhoods in 19th Century Africa, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Mgeni, M., "Initiation rites into adulthood are prominent in many Malawian societies; my reasons and suggestions for a better inculturation: A case study- Jando at Msembuka Village, T/A Chamba", Chancellor College, unpublished document, 1996. Mgeni, M., "Girls Initiation in a Yao setting and Christian Attitude: A case study at Msembuka village, Chikala Plateau, T.A. Chamba", Chancellor College, unpublished document, 1996. Mitchell J. C., "The Yao of Southern Malawi", Africa, vol. 19, (1949), pp. 94-100. Mitchell J. C., "The Yao of Southern Malawi", in E. Colson and M. Gluckman (eds), Seven Tribes of Central Africa, London: Oxford University Press, 1951. Mitchell, J. C., "Prelimary Notes on the Land Tenure and Agriculture among the Machinga Yao", The Nyasaland Journal, vol. 5, (2), (1952), pp. 18-30. Mitchell, J. C., The Yao Village: A Study in the Social Structure of a Malawian Tribe, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1956. Msiska, A., "Towards a Cultural History of Malawi; The Case of Colonialism & Yao Initiation Rites in Southern Malawi 1891-1961", M.A. Thesis, University of Malawi, 1992. Nelson H., Malawi: A Country Study, Washington: US Government Print, 1975. Peace Corps Chiyao Trainee's Manual, Lilongwe, 1998. Phiri, K., "Yao Intrusion into Southern Malawi, Nyanja Resistance and Colonial Conquest, 1830-1900", Trans-African Journal of History, vol. 13, (1984), pp. 157-163. Price, T. "Yao Origins", The Nyasaland Journal, vol. 17, (2), 1964, pp. 11-16. Rangeley, W., "The Amacinga Yao", The Nyasaland Journal, vol. 15, (2), 1962, pp. 40-70. Available at the Society of Malawi, Blantyre (www.societyofmalawi.org) Rangeley, W., "The Ayao", The Nyasaland Journal, vol. 16, (1), 1963, pp. 7-27. Available at the Society of Malawi, Blantyre (www.societyofmalawi.org) Rau, W., Cultural Atlas of Africa, J. Murray (ed), Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1981. Ross, K. R., (ed), "Mponda Mission Diary 1889-1891", Christianity in Malawi, Gweru: Mambo press, 1996. Sanderson, G. M., A Dictionary of the Yao Language, Zomba: The Government Printer, 1954. Soko, B., "Traditional Forms of Instruction: The Case of the Jando Initiation Ceremony", Catching the Wind: Oral Tradition and Education, Durban: (1989), pp. 147-161. Stannus, H. S. and Davey, J. "The Initiation Ceremony for Boys Among the Yao of Nyasaland", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 43, (1913), pp. 119-123. Stannus, H. S., "Notes on Some Tribes of British Central Africa", Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. XL, (1910), pp. 285-355. Trimingham, J. S., Islam in East Africa, Oxford: Clarendon, 1964. Webster, B., "Yao Hill to Mulanje Mountain Ivory Slaves & the South Western Expansion of the Yao ,1600-1865", Staff Research Paper, University of Malawi, History Department, 1977. Chimombo, S. Malawian Oral Literature, Zomba: Centre for Social Research, 1988. Chimombo, S. "Oral Literature Research in Malawi: A Survey and Bibliography, 1870-1986", Research in African Literature, vol. 18, (4), (Winter 1987), pp. 485-498. MacDonald, D., East African Tales, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1881. MacDonald, D., Africana; The Heart of Heathen Africa, vol. 1, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1882. Mitchell, J. C., "A Note on the African Conception of Causality", The Nyasaland Journal, vol. 5, (2), (1952), pp. 51-58. Schoffeleers, J. M., and Roscoe, A. A., Land of Fire; Oral Literature from Malawi, Limbe: Popular Publications, 1987. Schoffeleers, J. M., Religion and the Dramatisation of Life, Blantyre: Claim, 1997. [return to home page]