[Photographs taken by James Law Blair in and around Bandawe when employed by the African Lakes Company circa 1900.]
Blair, James Law.
[S.l. : s.n.,
1900?]
Bandawe settlement was funded from Glasgow on a commercial/evangelical basis. It was located in what was called Nyasaland but is now Malawi. The African Lakes Corporation was a British company originally set-up in 1877 by Scottish businessmen to co-operate with missions in Nyasaland. Despite its original connections with the Free Church of Scotland, it operated its businesses in Africa on a commercial rather than a philanthropic basis, and it had political ambitions in the 1880s to control part of Central Africa. Its businesses in the colonial era included water transport on the lakes and rivers of Central Africa, wholesale and retail trading including the operation of general stores, labour recruitment and landowning.
Bandawe settlement was funded from Glasgow on a commercial/evangelical basis. It was located in what was called Nyasaland but is now Malawi. The African Lakes Corporation was a British company originally set-up in 1877 by Scottish businessmen to co-operate with missions in Nyasaland. Despite its original connections with the Free Church of Scotland, it operated its businesses in Africa on a commercial rather than a philanthropic basis, and it had political ambitions in the 1880s to control part of Central Africa. Its businesses in the colonial era included water transport on the lakes and rivers of Central Africa, wholesale and retail trading including the operation of general stores, labour recruitment and landowning.
Includes the Testament dative of William Law Blair who died at Bandawe, Livingstonia in 1903.
African Lakes Company.