Magomero is an estate and a village in
Malawi
Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south, and southwest. Malawi spans over and ...
. It is situated south of
Zomba.
History
Although
Alexander Low Bruce never visited
Nyasaland
Nyasaland () was a British protectorate in Africa that was established in 1907 when the former British Central Africa Protectorate changed its name. Between 1953 and 1963, Nyasaland was part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. After ...
, he obtained title to some 170,000
acre
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s of land there through his association with the African Lakes Company and the agency of
John Buchanan, a planter who also brokered land sales by local
chiefs. Of this land, 162,000 acres formed the estate that he named Magomero, after a village that
David Livingstone
David Livingstone (; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, and an explorer in Africa. Livingstone was married to Mary Moffat Livings ...
had recorded in the same area during his
Zambezi
The Zambezi (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. Its drainage basin covers , slightly less than half of t ...
expedition.
[J McCraken, (2012). A History of Malawi, 1859-1966, pp. 77-9.]
References
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Populated places in Malawi
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