Tag Archives: Mbala
The other end of the First World War. ‘Tipperary mbali sana, sana’
Imagine a human chain of sixteen and a half thousand people, mostly barefoot and carrying heavy burdens – sixty pounds, twenty seven kilos – on their heads. Some pulling carts. Walking up to fifteen miles a day under the searing … Continue reading
An historic surrender, the last flushing loo and Custard with charcoal
November 1918. The end of the war to end all wars. Would that it had been so. We’re heading to Mbala. In 1918 Mbala was called Abercorn. The town was – is – close to the border between Northern Rhodesia … Continue reading
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Tagged Abercorn, German East Africa, Great North Road, Kalambo Falls, Lake Tanganyika, Mbala, Moto Moto Museum, Mpulungu, Northern Rhodesia, Tanzania, World War I
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MEMOIRS OF A HUSK 