Livingstonia
| Livingstonia | |||
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| Coordinates | 10 ° 36 ′ S , 34 ° 6 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Malawi | ||
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| District | Karonga | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | MW-KR | ||
| height | 1000 m | ||
| Residents | 3700 | ||
Livingstonia is a town in the northern region of Malawi at the foot of the Nyika Plateau , 96 kilometers north of Mzuzu as the crow flies . The city of Mzuzu can be reached from Chitimba, which is located on the lake shore and at the foot of the mountain, via an asphalt main road.
In 1894, Dr. Robert Laws and Uriah Chirwa on the plateau. They decided to build a training facility with vocational training goals at this point. Today the two inspirers will be honored at a memorial.
The first mission station Livingstonia , on the south side of Lake Malawi, was founded in 1875 by the missionary James Stewart and built with the support of the Central African Trading Company . In 1880 the location changed to Bandawe on the west side of the lake.
Livingstonia is essentially a mission and 130 bed hospital (David Gordon Memorial Hospital) of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and works closely with the sister mission in Ekendeti .
The church has a secondary school and a technical school with boarding school for 1,800 students, with the church providing accommodation for an additional 500 people. A total of about 3700 people are there. There are plans to build a college for education and theology. There is a guest house and a private camp. In the rainy season, all-wheel drive is essential, because the place is on a steep slope between Nyika and Lake Malawi . The village offers a panoramic view of the rugged Livingstone Mountains on the opposite Tanzanian bank of Lake Malawi, above which it was built directly on a cliff. The Manchewe Falls are nearby.
Not far from there are the Mchenga and Kaziwiziwi coal mines on a deposit with around two million tons of high-quality coal .
Web links
- Official site of the Mission (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert HW Shepherd: Lovedale South Africa. The Story of a Century 1841-1941 . Lovedale (The Lovedale Press) 1940, p. 511
- ^ Wallace G. Mills: Missionaries, Xhosa Clergy and the Suppression of Traditional Customs . Page 9, footnote 51 (PDF; 66 kB)
- ^ Northern Malawi Bibliography: Presbyterian . on www.northern-malawi-bibliography.luviri.net ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) Bibliography on James Stewart
- ↑ Mundus. Gateway to missionary collections in the United Kingdom: Africa: Church of Scotland Missions . on www.mundus.ac.uk (English)
- ^ News from David Gordon Memorial Hospital - Livingstonia . Announcement from April 24, 2013 on www.pcimissionoverseas.org ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ^ Willi Rave: Development aid above and below ground . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , September 28, 2010. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
- ↑ Nudrat Alim: Malawi may be next important coal destination of Africa . In: mjunction , August 27, 2008. Archived from the original on March 7, 2013 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 12, 2013.
