in the direction of higher education for the African - the better". However, Mumba was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Education in 1933. He participated in the debate on Colored education in the Advisory Committee in 1934, arguing against free primary education for just one section of the community (the "Coloreds" or so-called half-castes) and arguing in favor of including the whole community. A 1934 memorandum that Mumba prepared on post-primary and higher education was rejected by the Advisory Committee. In a report prepared for the colonial authorities in 1938 he said: "...the training which the African has received hitherto both in schools and through contact with white men whether as semi-skilled or unskilled workers has been aimed at fitting him as a worker for, instead of a worker with, the white man...". References Sources Year of birth missing 1945 deaths Nyasaland African Congress politicians Malawian Christians