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The Lomwe of Malawi are a recent introduction having arrived as late as 1914, during the first World War.

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.

To escape from the ill-treatment ( including the Portuguese physically pounding to death live infants in wooden mortars to extract local allegiance ), the Lomwe headed north and entered Malawi through the southern tip of lake Chilwa ; settling in Phalombe and Mulanje areas.

In Mulanje they found gainful employment on teas estates that various British companies were establishing on the foothills of Mount Mulanje.

Later they spread into Thyolo getting employment on tea estates and Chiradzulu.

The Lomwe readily mixed with the local Manga ' nja tribes, as there are no reported cases of tribal conflict.

Indeed, the tribal network with the Manga ' nja was very good so that when John Chilembwe, the revolutionary clergyman, ran foul with the British planters at Nguludi in Chiradzulu, he used this network to escape towards Mozambique.

Unfortunately, the British terrirotial forces caught up with him before he could cross the border.