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“A Mwenzo class at drill.” Exterior view of school children marching in formation down a rural road. Alexander Dewar (d.1943) founded Mwenzo in 1894 when he was sent into the north from Nyasaland. The expansion of the Catholic missions had encouraged the Free Church in their expansion. The mission is situated half way between Lake Nyasa and Lake Tanganyika in the Namwanga Country and just four miles from the Lake Company’s Fife station. The name Mwenzo means ‘heart’ and refers to the station as being at the heart of Africa. At the time both Karonga and Mwenzo were situated close to the border of German East Africa and during the First War the mission was overrun and evacuated by senior staff. Many indigenous people were enlisted into the military.
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