Chuma and Susi

Chuma was released from slave traders and journeyed with Livingstone during his last 9 years of travel, He accompanied Susi on their epic march to return Livingstone's body, and accompanied Livingstone's remains to England. He afterwards served in mission work in the Nyassa country.

Chuma and Susi were loyal servants of explorer David Livingstone. They came into the limelight after their employer Livingstone died at Chitambo's village (in modern day Zambia). They decided to carry his body all the way to Bagamoyo (on the coast of modern day Tanzania) where it was handed over to the British authorities and transported to London for burial.

Chuma was only a boy when Livingstone and Bishop Charles MacKenzie freed him from slavers in 1861.^[1] From that day Livingstone became his 'only family'. He was from the Yao tribe, and probably came from present day Mozambique or Malawi. Susi joined Livingstone at Shupanga in present day Mozambique when he was employed to cut wood on 'Livingstone's Second Journey'.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} David Livingstone & Horace Waller (Ed): The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa from 1865 to his Death. Two Volumes. John Murray, London, 1874.