Fort Lister Gallery
Title: Fort Lister
Description: 1893-1902. Well preserved ruins on top of the pass between Mulanje and Mchesi mountains. The Fort was built to counter slave trade activities by some Yao chiefs in the Shire highlands who used the pass as a route to the Indian Ocean. It is on top of the pass between Mulanje and Mountain and Michesi Hill. It was an important Slave Trade Route used by Yao chiefs among whom were Mkanda, Matipwiri, Nyezerera and Kawinga. The Fort was built by Sir Harry Johnston in 1895 and named after Sir Harry Vilkers Lister of the Foreign Office. The environmental setting remains the same as it has been the time the forts were built, the same brachystegia trees remains within the property, no human encroachment has occurred.
