African Lakes

The African Lakes Company ( African Lakes Corporation) was an early foundation in East Africa, which established since 1878 trading stations in Nyasaland (now Malawi) and south of it in Makololo country.

The African Lakes Company tried to completely bring the trade along the lower reaches of the Zambezi, the Shire and the Nyasa under their control and to tap into the marketing of Lake Tanganyika. These were built from the southern end of Lake Tanganyika to the northern end of the Njassasees a road, the so-called Stephenson way.

When Britain in 1888 its sphere of influence stretched from Bechuanaland and Matabeleland according to the south shore of the Zambezi, 1889 constituted the British South Africa Company. This took over in 1892 all stations and trading of African Lakes Company.

  • East Africa
  • British Colonial History ( Africa)
Shire River Bechuanaland Protectorate
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