Edwin W. Smith

Edwin William Smith ( born September 7, 1876 in Aliwal North, South Africa, † December 23, 1957 in Deal, England ) was a British military clergyman of the Methodist, missionary, ethnologist, linguist, historian and Africanist. He wrote a manual of Ila language ( Seshukulumbwe ) and explored together with Andrew Murray Dale ilasprachige the population of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), its effect area as a missionary. Smith was the main translator of the Bible into the Ila language. He was a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Main work

  • Edwin William Smith and Andrew Murray Dale: The Ila - speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia. 2 vols. London: Macmillan, 1920

Other works

  • A Handbook of the Ila language [ Commonly called the Seshukulumbwe ] spoken in North - Western Rhodesia, South - Central Africa: Comprising grammar, exercises, speciments of Ila tales, and vocabularies. Republ. Oxford 1907 -. Ridegewood, N. J. Gregg, 1907
  • The Christian mission in Africa. The International Missionary, 1926
  • Aggrey of Africa. Ayer Co Pub, 1929
  • The Mabille of Basutoland. Hodder and Stoughton, 1939
  • The secret of the African. United Society for Christian, 1943 (Seven lectures delivered as " Long lectures" in 1927-28, at the invitation of the Church Missionary Society. )
  • African beliefs and Christian faith. United Society for Christian, 1943
  • Knowing the African. United Society for Christian, 1946
  • The life and times of Daniel Lindley 1801-80. The Epworth Press 1949
  • The Blessed Missionaries: Being the Phelps -Stokes Lectures delivered in Cape Town in 1949; with foreword by Sir Herbert Stanl. Cape Town: Oxford U.P, 1950
  • Great Lion of Bechuanaland: the Life and Times of Roger Price, Missionary and Statesman, London 1957
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