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Zomba
Zomba is a city in southern Malawi, below the Zomba Plateau in the Shire Highlands. Chosen by Harry Johnston as the headquarters of the British Central Africa Protectorate in 1891, it remained the capital of Nyasaland and of independent Malawi until the government moved to Lilongwe in 1975.
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