African lake society

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The African Lakes Company (African Lakes Corporation) was an early establishment in East Africa , which established trading posts in Nyassaland (now Malawi ) and south of it in Makololo Land since 1878 .

The African Lakes Company tried to bring the trade on the lower reaches of the Zambezi , on the Shire and on the Nyassasee completely under their control and also to open up the traffic with the Tanganyika lake . To this end, a road, the so-called Stephenson Way , was built from the southern end of Tanganyika to the northern end of Lake Nyassa .

When Great Britain expanded its sphere of interest from Bechuanaland to Matabeleland and to the south bank of the Zambezi in 1888 , the British South Africa Society was constituted in 1889 . In 1892 this took over all stations and trading businesses of the African Lakes Company.