ABSTRACT
The legendary Dr. David Livingstone was a Scottish physician, anthropologist and missionary who is regarded as one of the great explorers of Africa during the nineteenth-century Victorian era. Livingstone’s fame as an explorer and his obsession with learning the sources of the Nile River was founded on the belief that if he could solve that age-old mystery, the fame he would gain as a result could help him end the Swahili slave trade. ‘The Nile sources,’ he told a friend, ‘are valuable only as a means of opening my mouth with power among men. It is this power [with] which I hope to remedy an immense evil’ (Livingston 2006).
