Category: Malawi

Central Africana Ltd

Type I

No.s	Description	Earliest PMK Date
N/A	Dugout near Chintheche, Lake Malawi
N/A	Fisherman, Lake Malawi.	20/10/1994
N/A	Khonde tailor, Blantyre.	31/01/1997
N/A	Lake View	06/02/1981
N/A	Lakeshore scene
N/A	Mount Mulanje from Zomba Plateau
N/A	The basket maker, near Mangochi.
N/A	The bawo seller, Lake Malawi	04/02/1997
N/A	Tinsmiths, Zomba market	06/11/1997
N/A	To market, near Chintheche.	29/01/1996
N/A	Zomba Market	28/12/1992
N/A	Zomba Mountain	29/09/1994

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Central Africana Ltd

Blantyre

Central Africana Ltd is a publishing house in Blantyre, Malawi. Central Africana specialises in books on the exploration and development of Nyasaland/Malawi and Central Africa. The company, established in 1988, operates two bookshops in Blantyre (Kidney crescent)and Lilongwe (Old Town Mall), in Malawi and has a medium-sized, broad-based stock on Central African subjects, ranging from travel and exploration to economics, anthropology and natural history. Nineteenth and early twentieth century titles form the backbone of our stock.

Core to Central Africana’s own publishing and its work on behalf of clients has been its enormous photo-library covering many aspects of Malawi past and present. Compiled over thirty-five years over one million photographs, transparencies (diapositives) and in digital form, are organised into folders by subject matter or client.

Postcards

• Warm Heart of Africa
  • Type I
  • Type II
• Produced by Central Africana Ltd for Times Bookshop Ltd
  • Type I – The Warm Heart of Africa
• Produced by Central Africana Ltd
  • Type II – The Warm Heart of Africa
• Produced by Central Africana Ltd, Blantyre, Malawi
  • Type III – The Warm Heart of Africa
• Produced by Central Africana Ltd for Malawi Against Polio (MAP)
  • Type IV – The Warm Heart of Africa
• Frank M Johnson, Central Africana Ltd
  • Type V
• Frank M Johnson. Produced by Central Africana, Blantyre, Malawi
  • Type VI
• Produced by Central Africana Ltd, Ltd Box 631, Blanytre, Malawi
  • Type VII – The Warm Heart of Africa
  • Type VIIA
• Produced by Central Africana, Blantyre, Malawi (website)
  • Type VIII
• Produced for the Jairos Jiri Association
  • Type IX

References

• Central Africana

Blantyre Printing & Packaging Co Ltd

Type III

No.s	Description	Earliest PMK Date
N/A	Kudya Discovery Lodge - Liwonde	16/12/1989
N/A	Mats for sale - Mangochi

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Blantyre Printing & Packaging Co Ltd

Type II

No.s	Description	Earliest PMK Date
N/A	Fisherman on Lake Malawi	22/01/1987
N/A	Young girls collecting water.

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Blantyre Printing & Packaging Co Ltd

Blanytre

 

The Blantyre Printing & Packaging Co Ltd was established from the Blantyre Printing and Publishing Co Ltd. Blantyre Newspapers Limited is a subsidiary company.

Postcards

• Type I – Land of Lake and Sunshine
• Type II – National Fauna Preservation Society of Malawi
• Type III – Warm Heart of Africa
• Type IVA – Air Malawi
• Type IVB – Air Malawi

 

Blantyre Printing & Packaging Co Ltd

Type I

No.s	Description	Earliest PMK Date
N/A	A Traditional Hut at Malawi Museum - Blantyre	08/03/1981
N/A	Capital Hotel - Lilongwe
N/A	Fisherman at Lake Malawi	04/09/1980
N/A	Fountain in the City Centre - Lilongwe
N/A	Lions Relaxing	02/06/1978
N/A	Mending Nets at Lake Malawi.
N/A	Nyala in Lengwe thicket.
N/A	Silver harvest of Lake Malawi.	10/10/1979
N/A	Smiling Malawi	19/04/1980
N/A	Tea Picking - Mulanje
N/A	The Clock Tower - Blantyre
N/A	View of Blantyre
N/A	Windsurfing on Lake Malawi.
N/A	Zomba Plateau Scenary	26/08/1982

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Moni Bookshop

Type I

No.s	Description	Earliest PMK Date
N/A	'Ingoma' Dancer.
N/A	Returning from the well.	28/07/1989
N/A	Roadside market	23/07/1985
N/A	Young girl cleaning pots.

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Moni Bookshop

Limbe

Postcards

• Montfort Press – Type I

Contributors

• James Gavin

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Times Bookshop Ltd

Type I

No.s	Description	Earliest PMK Date
N/A	Mending nets on Lake Malawi.

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