"The Bomba at Mzimba, Livingstonia", Malawi, ca.1910

Photograph of "The Bomba at Mzimba". The photograph shows a red brick structure with wooden shutters to the front and a red brick staircase to the right of the building. A man and a woman, likely Mrs Agnes and Rev Donald Fraser, stand either side of the steps. A row of 6 uniformed men stand in front of the building. This belongs to a series of Church of Scotland Foreign Missions Committee lantern slides relating to Rev Donald Fraser (1870-1933). Rev Donald Fraser, the Scottish missionary, was born in Argyllshire, Scotland, the son of a Free Church minister. In his youth Rev Fraser helped found the Student Volunteer Movement in Britain and the World Student Christian Federation before beginning missionary service in Malawi with the Free Church of Scotland. He worked in Malawi from 1896 until he returned to Scotland in 1925. He was first posted to Ekwendeni and later Embangweni. Rev Fraser worked closely with the Ngoni people.