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.