Malawi: The warm heart of Africa!
David Livingstone
From Malawi360
David Livingstone was born in Blantyre, Scotland in 1813 to a working class family. He saved enough money to study medicine at Anderson's University, Glasgow, and subsequently moved to London to complete his studies.
He started his missionary work in Africa in 1840, and was the first foreigner to discover Victoria Falls and the first to map much of this region of central Africa. He unsuccessfully attempted to negotiate the end of slavery in Malawi with the slave trader Jumbe at Nkhotakota.
As a doctor, he was the first person to link mosquitoes with Malaria, and was very highly regarded for his medical skills amongst locals in Malawi.
He died in 1873 and his body was embalmed and brought back to the UK for burial at Westminster Abbey.
