|the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.| |a scrap or morsel of
food left at a meal.| city, southern Malawi. It lies on the
lower slopes of Zomba Mountain in the Shire Highlands, 37 miles
(60 km) northeast of Blantyre. Established in 1885 as a
planters' settlement, from 1891 it was the centre for the
administration of the British Central African Protectorate
(later Nyasaland) and the capital of independent Malawi from
1966 until 1975, when the new capital was opened at Lilongwe.
The former residency (1887), designed to provide protection from
slave traders, still stands by the Mulunguzi River and is now
used as a government rest house. A new residence was later built
at State House, which is now the seat of Malawi's president. The
town still houses the Parliament Building (1957), where the
Parliament met until 1994, and various government offices. Since
the establishment in 1974 of Chancellor College, a new campus of
the University of Malawi, Zomba has changed in character from a
government centre to a univers