Jacob Wainwright

Jacob Wainwright
Portrait of Jacob Wainwright by Elliott and Fry
Born
Yamuza

c. 1859
Near Lake Malawi
(in present-day Malawi)
DiedApril 1892 (aged about 33)
Urambo District, German East Africa
(in present-day Tanzania)
OccupationsPorter, servant, interpreter, teacher, missionary assistant
Known forTransporting the body of David Livingstone

Jacob Wainwright (born Yamuza; c. 1859 – April 1892) was a freed slave of Yao origin who became an attendant of David Livingstone. He was notable for helping to carry Livingstone’s body from present-day Zambia to the coast of East Africa in 1873, and for leaving one of the few surviving African eyewitness accounts of the explorer’s death and funeral journey.

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