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"Indian Ward." Exterior view of a single storey brick building flanked by trees. A bequest from Osman Adam to fund and equip an Indian ward was supported by his son Haji Abubakar Osman, who funded numerous charitable foundations in Central and East Africa. Haji was based in Blantyre, Nyasaland [Malawi] where he was a town councillor and owned large tracts of land. Osman Adam arrived in Africa in 1885, and established a general merchant’s store known as Osman Adam. With stores throughout Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique], British Central Africa [Malawi] and Northern Rhodesia [Zambia] he became the largest Muslim merchant businessman in the region. He died in 1914.
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