# Magomero

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{{Short description|Village in Malawi}}
'''Magomero''' is an estate and a village in [Malawi](/source/Malawi).{{sfn|White|1989|p=1}} It is situated south of [Zomba](/source/Zomba%2C_Malawi).

==History==
Although [Alexander Low Bruce](/source/Alexander_Low_Bruce) never visited [Nyasaland](/source/Nyasaland), he obtained title to some 170,000 [acre](/source/acre)s of land there through his association with the African Lakes Company and the agency of [John Buchanan](/source/John_Buchanan_(settler)), a planter who also brokered land sales by local [chiefs](/source/Tribal_chief). Of this land, 162,000 acres formed the estate that he named Magomero. After a village that [David Livingstone](/source/David_Livingstone) had recorded in the same area during his [Zambezi](/source/Zambezi) expedition.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 2014 |title=Alexander Low Bruce Papers |url=http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/cnmi/inventories/acc11777.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911141248/http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/cnmi/inventories/acc11777.pdf |archive-date=11 September 2015 |access-date=3 March 2025 |website=www.nls.uk}}</ref><ref>J McCraken, (2012). A History of Malawi, 1859-1966, pp. 77-9.</ref>

==References==
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===Bibliography===
* {{cite book|last=White|first=Landeg|title=Magomero: Portrait of an African Village|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pk0yhg3vhLEC|date=14 September 1989|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-38909-9}}

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Category:Populated places in Malawi

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