Contrary to modern sensational propaganda, the British missionary David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) whose statue ZANU PF wants to remove and destroy, had plans for the 100% empowerment of black Zimbabweans and Zambians who he hoped would through his indigenisation program rise to become the envy of the world in a move that would in the process totally annihilate slave trade of human beings being shipped from the continent to America.
Livingstone’s diary notes in national archives and seen by ZimEye, reveal that the famous missionary hoped his program would develop the region Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi through to the rest of Africa in such a way that the black Africans involved in the slave trade business would be entirely discouraged from it, and like the rest of the world, begin to engage in diversities of commercial agriculture and modern commerce.
Other historical excepts which back Livingstone’s diary notes, reveal that few black Africans in the area around the rivers, engaged in sustainable agriculture at that time and were rather involved in the much condemned slave trade business.
Livingstone’s philanthropic program was financed by the British government from whom he obtained £5000 to donate cotton seeds to the villagers whose susbsistence and livelihood was at the time largely in bush life. The revelations show that native blacks in the area hardly did any farming and from Livingston’s program, they would be possibly motivated into commercial farming.
Writes Livingstone:
On my return from Africa my chief efforts will be directed to making the river Zambezi an open pathway to the interior healthy hihglands in order that a centre of civilisation and commerce will be formed. I shall visit all the chiefs along the banks and distribute cotton seeds – inviting the people to cultivate for our markets and I think if what I hope to begin is carried out that in the course of a dozen years Africa itself will have some material influence in diminishing the value of slave labour in America.
Other sections of Livingstone’s diary reveal that the missionary went further than the Zambezi river to attempt to establish modern commerce in the areas of the Lake Nyasa and beyond where the slave trade was also rampant.
“And if my disclosures regarding the terrible Ujijian slavery should lead to the suppression of the East Coast slave trade, I shall regard that as a greater matter by far than the discovery of all the Nile sources together,” – he wrote in a letter to the editor of the New York Herald.
He also wrote of the Zambezi and Lake Nyasa:
“It is highly probable that a small steamer on the Shire and Lake Nyasa would through the influence of the English name, prevent slave parties from passing the fords and, should our merchants not be obliged to ay dues for entering upon English discoveries for trade by a part of the Zambezi unsused by the Portuguese, goods could be furnished to the native traders at Lake Nyasa as cheap as they can get them on the East coast which involved a month’s journey further…The capability of the country for the production of cotton cannot be exaggerated”
When he died, the Zambian tribe in the area refused to hand over his body to the United Kingdom, and when they later chose to do so, they removed his heart, kept it to themselves, saying that they would give over his body, ‘but his heart belongs to Africa,’ other reports claim.
He died of malaria and internal bleeding and failed to see his indigenisation dream come to fulfilment.
Livingstone was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and his work has earned him a name as one of the best missionaries from the United Kingdom. Beyond missionary work, the explorer gathered mapping details of parts of Africa in areas which had not been documented on the world map.
Despite the missionary’s contribution to the region however, ZANU PF’s former govenor of Bulawayo, Cain Mathema, says the Zimbabwean government should pull down David Livingstone’s statue which is at Victoria Falls, saying that it is a symbol of oppression.{ABove pic: David Livingstone; the Upfumi Kuvadiki logo on the missionary as it could have been had Livingstone been alive today}(ZIMBABWE, ZimEye)
26 Replies to “Livingstone’s plans for 100% indigenisation of Zimbabwe and Zambia”
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gvt is’nt wrong about indegenisation programme coz livingston the xplorer has wrote it long back btwn 1813-1873 why westerns are against our zim keep on empowering black kasukuwere.also encourage other africans to do likewise
Jumpdaki, i wonder how you or your mother escaped Gukurahundi. after all u r the ones, u ndebeles, who started it and revenge is always sour. mandebele imha*a dzevanhu thats y they are not educated. any educated ndebele person has got some traces of royal blood in him. and by royal blood i mean the shona blood. u claim to have fat cattle but matebeleland is a cursed province droughts every year. u will eat hooves.
Kwete Anonymous I am forced to respond in sympathy wiht comments from the likes of you know who.
Usatyisidzire munhu iwewe JumpDaki – anongoda anokwanisa kushandisa Anonymous.
But iwewe persistance yako inobvepi munhu iwewe, wakaavenga maShona tazviwona.
Anonymous a dog’s father is a son of a dog also. This is the reason why I call you a gukuraundist and a child of gukuraundist. Its a chicken and egg story.
Anonymous tell everyone that you did not post the above article. If you realy did then you will see what I will pull for you. I was about to delete you name from my targeted list so please confirm you are not the one but its typhod and colera infected and affected Chimhnat* and Papa Wenja.
Amatebele(those who follow)this ethnic rivalry which u start from nowhere is bad.U cant insult my pple.Naked is it tru that if u want to hv sex with a ndebele girl b4 marriage u just buy 2kg sugar then u visit yo inlaws to be.upon seeing the 2kg,u wil be given yor bedroom and ffuk the chick with parents permission.hey a 2kg!
A 2kg of Sugar,
you will f*ck the whole family then, you will chow the Sisters, the mother, if you are gay like Naked you will alsio chow the Father and the neighbours.
Jumpdaki, baba wenja does not mean “son of a dog”, it means “Father of a dog”.
Point of correction.
True Michael but let noone make us celebrate lies. Malawi was also invaded by Nguni warriors but beacause Malawians are reasonable they celebrate the Ngunis who they call Ngonis up to this day, with their first life president calling himself the Ngwazi (A Nguni warrior equivalent of mordern day marksman or sniper) Look at Malawi’s peaceful co-existence!
Look at my destructive countrymen busy fighting history, graves and statues are not exempted. This Papa Wenja very intrasigent and disorderly chap just like the rats he eats. A rat will eat play with food and urinate on what has remained and also sleep on it and defeacate on it and eat again. My heart bleeds for my country for it is now in the state a rat would leave its food. No reserves no storage for the future nothing.
Now Michael Whiteman that part of history is past and accepted. You then have a problem with Jumpdaki when you keep coming from the rear like diarhea to influnce my people to make another sort of colonial history like you did when you colluded with the dissident party ZPF in 1980 to hand them victory through ommission and commission. You are part of Gukura you guys.
Now you are there with your targeted sanctions and issueing statements that make it difficult for SADCC to believe that it is the will of my people to have change. Would allow the Romans to make another invassion in the name of building history? NO!
So please let the blackman make his own history undisturbed. Remember me kindly to the Queen.
Chimh*ta we cannot all be mud*di. It is only you who is a mukosh* mukuru in this website. You gave yourself that name knowing who you are and baba wenja can witness that. So make your bed and lie in it.
You all seem to have missed the point. All over the world there has been a history of subservience to an invading force. UK has been invade countless times. Be it Angles, Jutes, Saxons, Vikings, Romans, Normans. All these invaders left a mark and are cele rated as part of the rich history. Whether you like it or not Livingstone is part of yours. Grow up and accept it.
Jumpdak the culture of folowing has killed u.u want me to folow Mbiti and chando,the same manner ndex folow shonas.instead mbiti and chando wil folo me-i papa wemba.im independant.i know u hv got something togetha with the coconut headed naked on matema aka mathema.
NJAMDIDI UNGANGI JAYELI .I WL NVER BE A SELOUT LIK THAT PERSON WHO IS LIKS MY NAME.
Baba Wenja again with his usual stupid theories. Very soon ZPF will be extinct and you will only have dembare to support. You think this is a strongman circus.
If Ndebeles were a type of disciples you wish them to be then I would not be here to call you by you real name i.e. Baba Wenja or son of a dog.
Even Bla and Chando call you Vava vengbwa and refuse to invite you to their Shona clubs. You want everyone to be Shona yet you are a dog’s father.
You see Papa I hate empty talk and when I talk about your people I cite living examples. I have never said what you are not I only add a few examples to make things easy for you thick head.
This Matema,sugar and those who follow is just beerhall talk from a narrow minded silly thing masquarading as a historian.
ZPF,a confused mafia.Mathema a confuse shona(imposter)just like Msika claiming to be ndex but he was shona.Mathema is Matema in Shona.I know this guy hes from Masvingo,nominated by mgabe to govern Matebele.Eish ndex make good desciples.
Amatebele(those who follow)this ethnic rivalry which u start from nowhere is bad.U cant insult my pple.Naked is it tru that if u want to hv sex with a ndebele girl b4 marriage u just buy 2kg sugar then u visit yo inlaws to be.upon seeing the 2kg,u wil be given yor bedroom and ffuk the chick with parents permission.hey a 2kg!
@ Jumpdaki you killed it…”This is the same type of Rhodesia history that makes Shonas think they once had cattle and beatiful women who were forcibly taken by Ndebeles when its a known fact that when one goes past battle fieds in Qweqwe all women by the road side look like Thomas Mapfumo and Matebeleland does not have the hard Mashona he-goat sized type of cattle that usual requires a tree to lean against when mooing” ohh finish.
Who can abuse a stupid name like yours. You post things in your moment of madness and start complaining get away popaye.
Guys who is this stupid dull dunder head who is abusing my name. Washaya rako zita here iwe mbudzi. Plz stop abusing my name .I AM NEVER AGAINST ZANU LIK U SELOUT.
Haiwawo .Zim stupid eye.This all bullshit.
Black people like those Tongas and Nambyas have always had high respect for the dead. Why portray them to be savages who saw no wrong in refusing with the dead body of a stranger they loved and then removing his heart as a show of love. We were never like the amazon cannibals.
Stop brainwashing us. This is the same type of Rhodesia history that makes Shonas think they once had cattle and beatiful women who were forcibly taken by Ndebeles when its a known fact that when one goes past battle fieds in Qweqwe all women by the road side look like Thomas Mapfumo and Matebeleland does not have the hard Mashona he-goat sized type of cattle that usual requires a tree to lean against when mooing. Ask Cde Naked if you think I am lying like the staff reporter.
You see dull people like Nehope will catch such false history and take it for a fact. I have no problems with Livingstone but dont lie when the radarless people like Tina, Nehope and Chimhata because their reliable sources of information are always newspapers,border agezi pungwes and circular magazines. Editor be responsible!
Cde Cain could be getting it wrong!The Statue of Dr Livingstone is just part of our history.Livingstone,infact it is well documented that he did not support slavery.He at no time tricked any local chief as with Rudd and other Britons!
He was a good man not like BoB N HIS ZANU PF LOOTERS I ADMIRE THIS MAN
zimeye madoda,a few days ago you were saying smith didn’t kill nationalist leaders and today you proclaim that livingstone and his heart stood for indigenisation.I see u’re in love with these so called imperialists.
I’ve never read such a stupid story in my life. This is rubbish, pliz dont play wth our intelligents. Insult at its best. Nxa
When he died, the Zambian tribe in the area refused to hand over his body to the United Kingdom, and when they later chose to do so, they removed his heart, kept it to themselves, saying that they would give over his body, ‘but his heart belongs to Africa.
So he was not rotting as people first refused and finally removed his heart. There were no planes, faxes, internet, mortuaries. This is a lie.
The best imperialist is a dead one.
I don’t talk