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After studies in medicine and theology, he was sent from London to South Africa as a medic and as a missionary.
Meanwhile in a mission in the Kuruman mountains, he learnt the language of indigenous and afterwards, he got married with the missionary Robert Moffat's daughter.
Furthermore, he was sent in some other missions, in which he discovered rivers, waterfalls (the best known is the Victoria Waterfall in 1855); the main purpose of these missions being the study of the courses of the rivers, such as Congo, Zimbezi and Ruwuma.
He was basically recognized for his contributions in geography, the courses of rivers and the discovery of Victoria Waterfall in 1855.
He died in Zambia and his heart was burried underneath a mvula.
For his contributions, he received the gold medal of Royal Society of geography from London.
His fame as an explorer and his obsession with learning the sources of the Nile River was founded on the belief that if he could solve that age-old mystery, his fame would give him the influence to end the East African Arab-Swahili slave trade. "The Nile sources," he told a friend, "are valuable only as a means of opening my mouth with power among men. It is this power which I hope to remedy an immense evil." His subsequent exploration of the central African watershed was the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of Africa. At the same time, his missionary travels, "disappearance", and eventual death in Africa—and subsequent glorification as a posthumous national hero in 1874—led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European "Scramble for Africa".