Nyasaland, the history of its export trade

Abstract

THE volume of export trade of a country is largely dependent upon the volume of its production over and above its internal requirements. Until the arrival of Europeans who brought stability of government, advanced techniques of production and improved means of transportation the native population of Nyasaland normally aimed at producing merely sufficient for its needs and as a consequence there was rarely a surplus. Indeed, the Magomero famine of 1861/2