DID you know that Livingstone is the only town in Zambia to retain a European name after Independence in 1964? 153 years after his death on May 1, 1873, the Scottish explorer/missionary Dr David Livingstone’s legacy still has an effect on Zambia through his personal belongings which include a brown weather coat, guns, handwritten letters, a Luvale sword ‘Mukwale’, fishing net, knife, umbrella, surgical tools, and metal baggage trunk, among other items exhibited in the Livingstone Museum. Born in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Scotland on March 19, 1813, and brought up as a child labourer in a textile spinning factory from the age of 10 up to 20, David Livingstone excelled to become a medical doctor and later a missionary who would...

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