The Universities’ Mission to Central Africa

  • The Makololo: A Zambian Kingdom

    Introduction In 1863 the demoralised remnants of the Universities Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) withdrew from the region we now know as Malawi. Their sad story is told in Magomero and the East African Slave Trade. Behind them they left… Continue reading

    The Makololo: A Zambian Kingdom
  • Magomero and The East African Slave Trade

    The slave trade in Africa was buyer driven. It was complex and fragmented trade but generally the Europeans took enslaved people from the west coast and from south of the Zambezi River in the east while the trade on the… Continue reading

    Magomero and The East African Slave Trade