The Death of Lewanika
by M.Wabei Siyolwe
Wake up you Sleepers Rouse up you Watchers Wake up Liwanika Wade in the water
King Lewanika and Colonel Fair R.C.Expedition of 1910 with the PEMS missionaries of Livingstone station
For some months Lewanika had been ageing rapidly and was constantly ill, though nothing serious seemed to threaten his life. The war (First World War 1916 - 1918) pressed heavily on him; he remarked at one time to his friends that, “the outbreak of this war made them feel as if they were in prison”. He died shortly before midnight on Friday, February 4th, after a lingering but not dangerous illness.
Source: Journal of the Royal African Society, Vol. 16, No. 62 (Jan., 1917), pp. 149-154
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