Author: thedigitalphilatelist

“Dr. Livingstone, I presume” is a famous greeting of Henry Morton Stanley upon locating David Livingstone on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in November 1871. Stanley was a Welsh-American journalist and explorer and was on an expedition to locate explorer and missionary David Livingstone, who had been missing in Africa…

View More Zambia Philately: 1973 Centenary of the Death of Dr. Livingstone (1813-1973) – 3n “Dr Livingstone, I Presume…”

On 1 May 1873 in the village of Chief Chitambo, the famed explorer David Livingstone, in search of the source of the Nile and Congo rivers, passed away from fever. He was 60 years old. On 1 May 1973 about 1.000 people, led by Kenneth D. Kaunda, President of Zambia,…

View More Zambia Philately: 1973 Centenary of the Death of Dr. Livingstone (1813-1973)

David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a British physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. He had a mythic status that operated on a…

View More Zambia Philately: 1973 Centenary of the Death of Dr. Livingstone (1813-1973) – 25n His Heart Was Buried at Chitambo under this tree

In his thirty years of travel and Christian missionary work in southern, central, and eastern Africa – often in places where no European had previously ventured – Livingstone influenced Western attitudes toward Africa more than any other individual before him. His discoveries including geographic, technical, medical, and social, provided a…

View More Zambia Philately: 1973 Centenary of the Death of Dr. Livingstone (1813-1973) – 15n Serving Mankind

For thirty years, David Livingstone attempted to evangelize native races, explore undiscovered secrets, and abolish the desolating slave trade of Central Africa. His last words he wrote, were: “All I can add in my solitude is: May Heaven’s rich blessing come down on every one, American, English, or Turk, who…

View More Zambia Philately: 1973 Centenary of the Death of Dr. Livingstone (1813-1973) – 10n Heal This Open Sore

In 1852 David Livingstone travelled north to the village of Linyanti on the Zambezi river, located roughly midway between the east and west coast of the continent, where Sekeletu, chief of the Kololo, granted Livingstone authority as a “nduna” to lead a joint investigation of trade routes to the coast,…

View More Zambia Philately: 1973 Centenary of the Death of Dr. Livingstone (1813-1973) – 9n Exploration Mosi-oa-Tunya – Victoria Falls