Problems and Solutions

David Livingstone was one of the first Western people to make a transcontinental journey across Africa, since Africa is a really dangerous place and full of difficulties. European explorers have many attempts in trying to reach the interior of Africa especially explorers from Kingdom of Portugal, but they all failed since in Africa, it is easy to get malaria, sleeping sickness, dysentery and different diseases. Beside, in Africa there are many really powerful tribes and chiefs, such as Lozi, Lunda and Mwata Kazembe. These powerful tribes have killed many of the explorers before David Livingstone. He faces all of these challenges that other explorers faced too, but he solved them by traveling much lighter then other explorers. He travelled lightly to show the tribes and chiefs and to reassure them that he was not a threat, as other explorers brought dozens of soldiers armed with rifles and other weapons, which were seen as military invasion by the tribes so they killed the explorers and their soldiers. But David Livingstone only brought with him a few servants and porters, bartering for supplies along the way, with only a couple gun for protection. He have also preached Christian messages to the natives, but he no force to preach to the people that were unwilling to listen. He have understood the ways of how to communicate the the local chiefs and he have successfully negotiated a passage through their territory, and the natives gave them help including medical help so that they can prevent some deadly diseases as mention above.