 He worked with UMCA from 1875 to 1878

Chuma died towards the end of 1882 of tuberculosis.Abdullah Susi met Livingstone in 1863 when he was employed to help build the Lady Nyasa; he then sailed to Bombay where he was left by Livingstone and enrolled in Dr Wilson's Free State College.When Livingstone returned he recruited Susi as a porter for his last journey in 1866-74 to find the source of the Nile.