Thursday 21 June 2018

Trees and slaves


Slaving was common up to the19th century and Nkhotakota was a principal focus. This wall is from Malawi's first mosque, next to a stockade for slaves.


In 1861, Dr Livingstone sat under this fig tree to negotiate with local chiefs to stop the trade.

He sat under this one in 1863 and gave a chief an umbrella before sailing off to intervene in more slave trading.
Here the first post-independance president of Malawi, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda, held his first political rally.

Crumbliest, flakiest.....


Certainly is.   Something of a rarity here and I can see (and taste) why demand might be low.