Deep in the northern Zambian wilderness sits Shiwa Ng’andu, a grand country estate and labour of love of eccentric British aristocrat Sir Stewart Gore-Brown. The estate’s crowning glory is Shiwa Ng’andu manor house, which is a glorious brick mansion.
Driving up to the house through farm buildings, settlements and workers’ houses it almost feels like an old feudal domain: there’s a whole community built around it, including a school and a hospital, and many of the people now working at Shiwa Ng’andu are the children and grandchildren of Sir Stewart’s original staff. Today, Gore-Brown’s grandchildren live on and manage the estate, which is a working farm.
