Case file · Apparition / miracle
Kamwana's prophecy of 1914
In 1908–1909 the Watch Tower preacher Elliot Kamwana baptised thousands in northern Nyasaland and announced that the world, and colonial rule, would end in October 1914.
1909 CE · -11.95, 34.18 · status: account
The account
Colonial officials deported him in 1909, fearing rebellion. He later founded his own Watchman Healing Mission. The prophecy echoed the Watch Tower movement's own expectations for 1914.
The sceptical view
The predicted end did not come; the outbreak of the First World War that year was taken by some followers as partial fulfilment.