Title: Livingstone tree
Description: At this tree Dr. Livingstone negotiated with Jumbe regarding freedom for slaves. One of major Slave Trade Routes was Nkhotakota where a Swahili-Arab slave trader, Salim-bin Abdullah (Jumbe) set up his headquarters on the shore of Lake Malawi in the 1840s. From Nkhotakota he organized his expeditions to obtain slaves and ship them across the lake to East African markets, Kilwa. About 20, 000 slaves (Pachai, P.A. 1968) were annually shipped by Jumbe to Kilwa from Nkhotakota. The captives were kept until they number 1000 and taken across the lake and then forced to walk for three to four month journey to Kilwa where they were sold.