Burundi Livingstone Stanley Monument | All You Need To Know

The Livingstone Stanley Monument at Mugere marks a location where explorers and missionaries Dr. David Livingston and Henry Murton Stanely visited. The two explorers spent two nights in Burundi on 25^th -27^th November 1871. The monument is 12 km south of the enormous city and former capital of Burundi (Bujumbura) with a view of Lake Tanganyika. In French the monument is made reference to as “La Pierre de Livingstone”. Some citizens in Burundii it is where the famous explorers Dr David Livingston and Henry Murton Stanley first met. Nevertheless, that meeting surprisingly happened on 10^th November 1871 in Ujiji in Tanzania as Stanley clearly states in his book titled “How I Found Livingstone”.

Livingstone Stanley Monument

The David Livingstone gazette also confirms that the meeting took place from Ujiji with an entry the eve before the meeting reading. Livingstone then specifies meetings with multiple Arab inhabitants of Ujiji inclusive of one who was meant to keep his goods from his former visit before recording the arrival of Stanley.

According to their writings, the visit to Mugere looks to be the one on 25^th–27^th November which David Livingstone and Henry Murton Stanley narrated as being among of the most hospitable. 25^th November 1871 can be seen scratched on the rock. The two explorers rested in Ujiji for six days and then left by canoe up the northeast shore of the lake to explore rivers that might flow out of Lake Tanganyika. Being the first Europeans to visit the area, their arrival was unforgettable.