In the Footsteps of Livingstone

The HeraldMay 21, 2005

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DAVID Livingstone had a dream for the country he called Nyasaland. The missionary and explorer from Blantyre envisaged a day when poverty and slavery in Central Africa would be supplanted by commerce and prosperity. Today that vision has never seemed more remote.

When Scotland's first minister, Jack McConnell, touches down in Malawi tomorrow, he will find a country where 65per cent of the population exist on less than 70p a day, where there is barely one doctor for 60,000 people and where the life expectancy of a baby born today is 28 years - the third-worst figure in the world.

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In the Footsteps of Livingstone

The generations of Scots missionaries who followed Livingstone to Malawi forged a special relationship between the two...

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