Petro Kilekwa

Petro Kilekwa (also Chilekwa, late 1860s/early 1870s – 1967) was an African man who, after having been enslaved, became a teacher and later an Anglican priest. His autobiography, published in 1937, was titled Slave Boy to Priest: The Autobiography of Padre Petro Kilekwa.

Biography Kilekwa was born in Zambia, in a Bissa village, as a boy in what he called "the Maviti wars" (the term may point to "any brigand rather than to a specific ethnic group" ). His mother was unable to pay his ransom — eight yards of calico cloth

By 1949, he was retired, living in Kiungani (in the Pwani Region of Tanzania) on "a small holding leased to him by the Government". He died in 1967, in his mid-nineties.