On the face of things, there might not seem a lot in common between the west of Scotland and Malawi, a landlocked east African country traversed by the Great Rift Valley, one of Earth’s most renowned geographical wonders.
But the two nations share a past and concerns for the future. They are linked by a place name – Blantyre. It’s Malawi’s financial hub and second largest city, and also the name of a small town just outside Glasgow, and now a joint research laboratory has taken on the moniker, the Blantyre-Blantyre Clinical Research Facility based at Malawi’s Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS).
