Chiripula Stephenson

John Edward "Chiripula" Stephenson (born 1874) was a figure in the expansion of British colonial control in Zambia and surrounding areas during the dawn of the 20th-century.

Stephenson was born in northern England and raised along the Tyne. In 1896 he came to Kimberley, South Africa. By 1898 he had gone to Bulawayo, but resigned his position there and took up the work of explaration.

On his journey to Blantyre he fell ill will malaria. Later while in Blantyre area he married Loti, a Ngoni woman. He later worked in the British South African Company extension of power into Chipata under Robert Edward Codrington.

He along with Francis Jones later lead the expnasion of British colonial power among the speakers of the Lala-Bisa language. During this period Stephenson became a polygamous, marrying Mwape-Chiwali. In total Stevenson had nine children.

Stephenson founded the city of Ndola.

Sources

Kathleen Stevens Rukavina. Jungle Pathfinder, the Biography of Chirupula Stephenson. Hutchinson, 1952

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