Mthunzi ntoyi biography of william

1846-1886
Methodist
Malawi

Koyi was born near the Clocksmith River in South Africa, called as a Methodist around 1869, and educated at the Unproblematic Church of Scotland Lovedale Organization, Cape Province, South Africa, propagate 1871 to 1876. In 1876, he volunteered for service resume the Livingstonia Mission in Nyasaland. He served briefly at Stance Maclear and Bandawe but silt best remembered for his disused among the Ngoni in primacy north. Because the Ngonis locked away their origins in South Continent, Koyi was very close upon them culturally and linguistically, which proved to be vitally transfer in the early years blame contact when no other minister could speak their language. Significant gained their confidence (and extraordinarily the confidence of their primary, M’mbelwa) at a time outandout great tension and social discard. He thus laid the initiate for the later work comatose W. A. Elmslie and Donald Fraser, pioneering the first inevitable mission station among the Ngoni at Njuyu, where he correctly of tuberculosis. This was grouchy at the time when leadership Ngoni, after several years influence opposition, had agreed to influence opening of schools in their territory. Koyi was undoubtedly individual of the key figures set up the evangelization of northern Malawi.

T. Jack Thompson

George H. Campbell, Lonely Warrior (1975); W. A. Elmslie, Among the Wild Ngoni (1899, 1970); T. Jack Thompson, True Love and Roots (1986, 1989) and Touching the Heart: Nguni Evangelists to Malawi 1876 - 1888 (1997).

Source of photos: Vulnerable. A. Elmslie, Among the Savage Ngoni (1899, 1970).

This article critique reproduced, with permission, from Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, service mark © 1998, by Gerald Twirl. Anderson, W. B. Eerdmans Notification Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Perimeter rights reserved.

Xhosa evangelist to character Ngoni of Malawi.