The location of Chikwawa in Malawi (at the red dot)
Chikwawa is a town with a population of 6,114 according to the 2018 census[1] located in the Southern Region of Malawi on the west bank of the Shire River.[2] It is the administrative capital of the Chikwawa District. Chikwawa lies almost 50 kilometres (30 mi) south of Blantyre, the commercial capital of Malawi.[3]
Chikwawa, then known as Chibisa's village, was the first town in Malawi to be seen by European explorers, when visited in March 1859 by David Livingstone's second Zambesi expedition. Their way upstream was blocked by the Kapachira Falls, and they returned in August for land exploration which reached Lake Malawi on 18 September.[4][5]
The surrounding region was ravaged by Portuguese slave traders in the nineteenth century.[6]
The Majete Wildlife Reserve, the Mwabvi Wildlife Reserve and Lengwe National Park lie in the vicinity of Chikwawa. Large numbers of hippopotamus and crocodiles inhabit the Shire River area.[7]
^"2018 Population and Housing Census Main Report" (PDF). Malawi National Statistical Office. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
^Briggs, Philip; Bartlett, Mary-Anne (2006). Malawi: The Bradt Travel Guide. Bradt Travel Guides. pp. 230–233. ISBN 978-1-84162-170-8.
^Carter, Judy (30 October 1987). Malaŵi: wildlife, parks and reserves. Macmillan Publishers. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-333-43987-6.
^Rijpma, S. (2015). David Livingstone and the Myth of African Poverty and Disease: A Close Examination of his Writing on the Pre-colonial Era. Afrika-Studiecentrum Series. Brill. p. 121. ISBN 978-90-04-29373-1. Retrieved 12 October 2021. Chibisa's village, now Chikwawa
^Lamba, I. C. (1983). Primary History: Malaŵi, an Early History. Dzuka. p. 40.
^Briggs, Philip (2010). Malawi. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 209. ISBN 978-1-84162-313-9.
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