Editing History of Malawi (section)

===Lomwe of Malawi===
The [[Lomwe people|Lomwe]] of Malawi are a recent introduction having arrived as late as the 1890s. The Lomwe came from a hill in Mozambique called [[uLomwe]], north of the [[Zambezi River]] and south east of [[Lake Chilwa]] in Malawi. Theirs was also a story of hunger largely instigated by the Portuguese settlers moving into the neighbourhoods of uLomwe.<ref>Z. Claude Chidzero – 'The Lomwe Diaspora and Settlement on Tea Estates in [[Thyolo]], Southern Malawi', Degree Research paper, History Department, [[University of Malawi]], [[Zomba, Malawi|Zomba]], 1981</ref> To escape from ill-treatment, the [[Lomwe people|Lomwe]] headed north and entered Nyasaland by way of the southern tip of lake Chilwa, settling in the [[Phalombe]] and [[Mulanje]] areas.

In Mulanje they found the Yao and Mang'anja already settled. The Yao chiefs such as Chikumbu, Mtilamanja, Matipwili, Juma, Chiuta welcomed the Lomwe as their cousins from Mozambique. A large number of Lomwe were given land by the Yao and Mang'anja. Later on the Lomwe got employment on tea estates that various British companies were establishing on the foothills of [[Mount Mulanje]]. They gradually spread into [[Thyolo]] and [[Chiradzulu]]. The Lomwe readily mixed with the local [[Mang'anja]] tribes, and there are no reported cases of tribal conflict.