Chiromo

Chiromo is a town in southern Malawi by the Shire River.

Ewart Grogan saw the two rivers that met in that Nairobi area reminding him of the village in southern Malawi and named the place Chiromo.

[1] Chiromo means “joining of the streams”.

It was for many years the heart of the cotton industry and had one of the best bridges in Africa at the time.

The bridge suffered a severe washaway in the late 1990s.