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In this article I explore several implications of the thematic metaphorical terms“lighthouse” and “library” with reference to three translations of the completeScriptures that have been made in the Chinyanja language of Malawi, Zambia, andMozambique. How did these translations, one begun over a century ago, serve bothto promote (enlighten, show the way, reveal the rocks) and also to preserve (act as areservoir and repository for) the language and culture of the Chinyanja-speakingpeoples of this south-central African region? My survey describes some of themajor challenges, difficulties, and setbacks encountered along the way in contrast tocertain outstanding successes that were achieved and new initiatives undertakenduring this long history, which continues to be written in the new millennium.Several linguistic aspects of this progressive development are briefly examined in acomparative manner with reference to a number of Scripture passages as theyappear in the most literal and most idiomatic Chinyanja versions. I conclude bysummarizing the potential of mother-tongue Bible translation for enlarging, by wayof preservation and promotion, the overall communication resources of any givenlanguage-culture, especially one that does not have a great corpus of publishedliterature.

BIBLE TRANSLATION – A LIGHTHOUSE AND A LIBRARY FOR THE PROMOTION AND PRESERVATION OF LANGUAGE AND ‘LITERATURE’ IN AFRICA: THE EXAMPLE OF CHINYANJA