The Luangwa Valley

The Luangwa Valley is at the southern end of the east African rift valley system.

One of the continent’s least known rivers, the Luangwa with its palm fringed lagoons, winds 400 miles through the Valley to join the mighty Zambezi.

A tsetse fly and malarial zone, it is inhospitable to farmers and has traditionally been the territory of hunter-gatherers.

Historical records of the Valley began with the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th century;

Livingstone was one of the early British explorers to cross the Luangwa River.

Slave traders from the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, of Arab, European and African origin, all preyed on its peoples.

Read more at:

http://www.liv.ac.uk/sace/research/projects/mfuwe/luangwa/index.html