Salima District
Capital and Hospital

    Although no evidence of its past is visible in the present the name “Salima” can drive cold chills down the back of even a novice historian. It was from Salima, during the dark days of the slave trade, that thousands upon thousands of people were sold into slavery and shipped away to places such as India and Arabia. They were never heard from again. At the height of the trade in human life it has been estimated that over 10,000 people were sold each year into slavery from the jumping off points at the notorious lake communities of Karangu, Nkhotokoka, and Salima.

      Salima comes in on the population chart at 9th in the nation, with an estimated population of 22,440 in 2005.

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