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“Sawyers, Mwenzo, N. Rhodesia [Zambia].” – “Native types Winamwanga [peoples], Tanzanyika district, N. Rhodesia.” Group portrait of workers in a wooded area. Mwenzo was established in 1894, by Alexander Dewar (d.1943,) and was the first Free Church mission in north eastern Rhodesia. It was situated on the Stevenson road, which linked Lake Nyasa with Lake Tanganyika and was a major trade route, just four miles from the Lake Company’s Fife station. It was run, much of the time, by Yohane Afwenge Banda, a Tonga evangelist and Dr James Alexander Chisholm (1872-1936) who ran the mission and hospital from 1900-1936, he was also appointed J.P. of Rhodesia and translated the New Testament into Chinanwonga. The Chisholm Memorial Hospital in Mwenzo was named after him.
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