Mulenga Kapwepwe
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Artist and Co-Founder of the Women's History Museum
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Before our independence, the then President of Ghana, Nkwame Nkrumah gifted my father this kente cloth, my father cut it in half and gifted KK the other half. At our 50th Independence celebrations, KK wore his piece as he did on 24th October 1964. We buried my father in his.
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100 years since your birth. Rest in peace Dad, your memory lives.
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1977, Zambia National Service Solwezi Camp. My twin sister Chileshe, myself and Nancy Kalikeka Phiri. Eleven months of beans, 'Sir bwana!', pineapples, jombos, road runs and rifles. Would do it all again!!
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Me and my twin sister on the free flights that were organised for school children when Zambia Airways was launched. Happy birthday to us, we have flown together through storms and sunshine for 65 years today!
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Once upon a time...Reading from a children's story book with Danny Glover to raise funds to build a children's library in Zambia. We've built four libraries since this day. Thank you Mr. Glover!
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In 2007, I met a woman selling a beautiful tie-and-dye fabric on Cairo Road. She told me she had been married to a Senegalese man, who had returned to Senegal with their two children.
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Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe 12th April 1922-26th January 1980. What a life. Always and forever in my thoughts.
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After 11 months of agriculture and military training in the Zambia National Service ...19 years old and ready to fly.
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Years ago I researched and put together my family tree going back some 300 years. I made copies for my nieces as a way of passing on our family history and connecting them to the incredibly strong men and women who came before them. This is Natasha's battered, well-thumbed copy.
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Archived memories. My father and mother welcomed the American Vice-president Hubert Humphrey at the airport and went with him to State House when he visited Zambia in 1968.
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In 1964, Miriam Makeba, living in exile as an outspoken fighter against the Apartheid system in South Africa, was the Special Guest Artist during Zambia's Independence celebrations. Miriam Makeba gifted my mother this beautiful gown. She remained exiled for 31 years.
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Last week, after 31 years of being away, the young man made it to Zambia and re-united with his mother. This was the best New Year's gift I have ever received.
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Happy to announce I am one of the 5 out of 270 global applicants selected to participate in The Next Billion Fellowship at the Ethereum Foundation. My project focuses on finding balance and fairness in solving our problems through human cooperation and technology. More soon.
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When females lead...Great things happen! Thank you Mrs Mizinga Melu and Team for a memorable morning!
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I have made it into the New African as one of the most influential Africans in 2023! Flying the flag!
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Thank you all for the warm and kind wishes for our birthday! From the deeply grateful Kapwepwe twins!
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Thank you Standard Chartered Bank staff for letting me share my pre- and post independence memories with you. Happy Independence Day everyone!
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1964 Kenneth Kaunda nominated Malina Kajila Chilila-Makhubalo as Member of Parliament. The 24 year old was one of the five women to sit in the first session of the National Assembly of Zambia alongside Nakatindi Nganga Wina, Ester Banda, Margaret Mbeba, and Madeline Robertson.
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When Females Lead they mix wisdom with laughter! Sharing insights at Women in the Boardroom session hosted by When Females Lead!
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When Females Lead kopala style! What a brilliant day!
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Maputo. Nyerere and Kapwepwe...current generation. Children of African Liberation. Thank you UNESCO.
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Found a bunch of sprouting masuku seedlings on a rubbish dump by the roadside. Spent my day transplanting 130 masuku seedlings and teaching my nephew to love trees and the soil! My food forest loading!
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My food jungle is thriving and my Jackfruit tree keeps giving.
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Spent yesterday planting mpundu, masuku, mfungo, amabungo, mchingachinga, masao, marula, mfinsa, mukuyu, baobab, yam, sweet potatoes, impwa, ilanda, chives, basil, red onions, Irish potatoes (red skin), granadillas and raspberries on my plot! My food forest is growing!
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The stamp celebrates Tonga heritage, the practice of Kubangwa, the removal of four front teeth, the wearing of the nose accessory called Chisita and the traditional head dress, called ichiyayale made from bulungu or beads.
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Luchele Nganga, a Portuguese physician, accompanied Chitimukulu and his Bemba migrants from present day DRC. After Chiti died, Luchele built a clay brick hut with an iron door and beams to entomb his body, in a place called Mwalule. Every Chitimukulu has been buried there since.
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Amanita Zambiana...Tente. The postage stamps depicting the rich diversity of our flora and fauna are truly an education .
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years. We launched the Mwembeshi satellite. 26th Independence Anniversary postage stamp issue.
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Mikobango facial scarifications were identification marks for Bemba women. In the 19th Century, the Ngoni captured Chimbabantu, little sister to the Chitimukulu Chitapankwa. Years later she returned now a grown woman, her mikobango identified her as the long-lost Bemba princess.
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In Mkushi, at Chengelo School, my play Kakraba goes on stage this evening! Can't wait to see the students do their thing!!
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Reading this book (1971-1974). Very interesting ethnology. We need a workshop.
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A stamp celebrating the 10th Anniversary of PTC (Post and Telecommunications Corporation now split into ZAMTEL and ZAMPOST). It depicts our first post office in Kalomo in 1902. Kalomo became the first capital of Northern Rhodesia in 1908, Livingstone in 1928, Lusaka in 1935.
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Last night at Georgia State University. It was a wonderful evening of sharing.
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Kenneth Kaunda turned 40 the year he became president of the Republic of Zambia. These stamps were issued to celebrate his 50th birthday, 10 years after independence.
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We entered the 1964 Olympic Games as Northern Rhodesia, ending the games as Zambia at the closing ceremony on the 24th October 1964. In 1988 Seoul Olympics Zambia participated in athletics, boxing, football. Zambia is the only country to ever participate under 2 names & 2 flags.
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To purchase any of the trees I've listed in my post and more, contact Joseph Mwanza, he has a great collection of indigenous and non-indegenous fruit trees! He also has beautiful indigenous non-fruiting trees and flowering plants. His is on +260976324465
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Youssou Ndour and Wezi...don't get no better! Great performance!
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My novel is out soon...don't miss out. Place your order now!
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The heat in Lower Zambezi right now... came upon this elephant fast asleep under a tree.
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Istanbul, as a Next 1 Billion Fellow Co-hort 3. What a valuable experience !
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It took 107 days to build the Mulungushi Conference Centre for the 3rd Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement hosted from 8–10 September 1970. President Kaunda chaired the conference attended by 54 member states, 9 observer countries, 11 liberation movements, 3 unity organizations.
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The sad thing is we take Nshima as only made with maize meal. Less than a 100 years ago this was not the case. Nshima was cooked from cassava, millet, sorghum, bulrush millet or a mixture of two of these. Nshima made from Maize meal is a colonial introduction.
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I'm giving a talk on the cultural significance of proverbs based on the book *“Insoselo na Mapinda” by Mulenga Kapwepwe and Sampa Kangwa-Wilkie, at *Alliance Française de Lusaka* on *Thursday 13th April* *18.30hrs*.
Please come! Entry free!
Copies on sale on the night.
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Soya beans, indigenous to China and one of the 5 oldest crops cultivated before 2500 BC, was introduced in Zambia in the 1930s. In 1991 a project by Rotary Club and United Church of Zambia created awareness about its benefits. Zambia is now self-sufficient in soya production.
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Dingiswayo Banda's sons and Simon Kapwepwe's daughter in Atlanta. We are family.
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Tazara Railway was built between 1970 and 1975 by moving almost 89 million cubic metres of earth and rock to build 320 bridges, 22 tunnels and 2,225 culverts. Running 1,860 km from Dar es Salaam to Kapiri Mposhi, it is viewed as one of the greatest engineering efforts since WWII.
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Once in Senegal I hired a taxi and drove around Dakar until I located the house. I knocked. I had found the children. I made the son promise they would one day visit their mother. Back in Zambia, I gave the mother her children's contacts and she spoke to her son after 15 years.
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The Anglican Cathedral was built in 1962. The concrete window frames came from the Copperbelt, some wall stones from other Cathedrals, including Canterbury and America. The smaller Ethiopian Cross was a gift from Emperor Haile Selaissie who worshipped in the Cathedral in 1965.
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A great way of learning about Zambia's colonial and current history is through our fascinating postage stamps.
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Live lightly like a butterfly 🦋 and contribute as much...
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Morning walk...thought I tied the best headwraps. This spider proved me wrong.
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A day spent in good company! Dolika and Monica! What an inspiring morning from two of Zambia's best!
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The kankobela is the thumb-piano of the BaTonga, a solo instrument played by men to express their innermost feelings. Theory is the thumb piano appeared twice in Africa, first on the west coast about 3,000 years ago and a second time in the Zambezi Valley about 1300 years ago.
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Most people remember my father, Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe as a politician. I remember him as an artist; dancer, singer, poet and writer. He even designed his clothes. He recorded this song while studying in India in 1952. Read about it in Leonard Koloko's book, Zambian Music Legends.
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Women of the Gwembe valley, Zambia,have long used a water-filtered calabash tobacco smoking pipe called ndombondo. Charcoal and tobacco are placed in the attached clay bowl then the larger calabash bowl half filled with water to cool the smoke and filter out the tar and nicotine.
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The Zambezi flows around me in a non-stop conversation. A conversation long enough to lose myself into. A conversation long enough to absorb the wonder of myself as a thread in the pattern of larger things.
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A photo of me contemplating the Zambezi at sunset by Chipo Chitambi one of our participants at the Kasaka Women's Photography Workshop. Well done to all our wonderful participants.
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For the past four years, I have been part of the Bank of Zambia, Road Transport and Safety Agency and Lusaka National Museum, Financial Literacy Programme for schools. Today, reading to the Grade 6 class from Jacaranda School. Such a pleasure!Well done
#BankofZambia
#RTSA
#LNM
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Tea growing started as a Government pilot project in 1969. Kawambwa Tea Ltd was incorporated as an SOE in 1975, the tea processing factory commissioned in 1976. Today, Kawambwa Tea processes 30 tons of tea per day, employs around 700 permanent staff, and grows 5 tea varieties.
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Over 180 strong Lozi men paddle the Litunga's Nalikwanda Barge from Lealui to Lumulunga. Each paddler wears a a scarlet beret with a piece of lion’s mane and a skirt of animal skins. If a man's paddling stick hits another man's paddle or the barge, he is thrown overboard.
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In Africa, the Taita Falcon is found in Sudan, Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa. In Zambia, the Taita Falcon mostly dwells in the steep gorges near the Mosi-oa-Tunya Falls and is one of the fastest animals on Earth, reaching speeds of some 270 mph or 437 km per hour.
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Sharing a joke with MTN FINTECH Managing Director, Komba Malukutila. Indeed, there is nothing in the world so contagious as laughter and good humor.
Charles Dickens.
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Atlanta Here We Come! September loading! Zambia ku chalo!
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The 7th edition is out! Support this local magazine publication. Buy a copy from Shoprite, Bookworld or Graymatter. Doing this shoot with young Zambian professionals was great fun!
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Our Guests from Sweden visiting our QR code exhibition of the Leading Ladies series at the Aroma, Kalingalinga Mall. Simply point your phone at any of the 40 QR codes and you are taken on a historical journey of an outstanding Zambian woman. Welcome!
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In my novel 'Perfect Marriage' Bwalya and Musonda meet in America and decide to marry. Back in Zambia, Musonda the groom, refuses to go to the village for their ukulange mbusa marriage rites. Tension engulfs the lovers, the future in-laws, and the village. Mbusa photos- A Ogterop
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This afternoon, discussing the translation of Akaana ka Mfumu (Le Petit Prince)and the work of the Women's History Museum Zambia with Mde. Chrysoula Zacharopoulou,the French Minister of State for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships. Great meeting. Merci!
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Baobab trees can live for up to 5,000 years, grow up to 30m high and up to 50m in circumference. The Livingstone Lookout Tree is believed to be over 1000 years old is located along the Mukuni road. It is a good vantage point to view the Zambezi and the Mosi-oa-Tunya Falls.
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Nakambala Sugar Estate founded in 1964 by Tate & Lyle Ltd was a centre piece of the agriculture policy of government. 1972 the Zambia Sugar Company Ltd operating the Estate was nationalised then privatised in 1995. Zambia Sugar Plc contributes 92.5% to national sugar production.
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My book is now available on Amazon, and at Barnes &Noble. Please support the local team and buy a copy.
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She hadn't seen her children for 15 years. Two weeks later, I was invited for a conference to Senegal, I met and told her if she had any means of contacting the children, I would try and find them. She handed me a piece of paper with the address of a house in Dakar, Senegal.
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After our Olympic Games performance in Seoul 1988 beating Italy 4-0, Zambia became a favourite to reach the 1990 World Cup. We won all home games in the qualifiers, and believed we had the team to take us to the World Cup. Sadly we didn't qualify for World Cup Italy 1990.
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Another postage stamp commemorating our 26th Independence Anniversay. It depicts a statue that stands in front of Ndola City Council made by the very famous Brazilian artist Vilma Noel. The statue is called "Mama Africa".
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When the noble eagle flew the skies. Stamps celebrating the fleet and 20 years of Zambia Airways- 1967 to 1987.
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I have been coordinating the translation of the French classic 'Le Petit Prince' (The Little Prince) written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry into Bemba. The book launch of "Akaana ka Mfumu" is this Thursday at the Alliance Française. Come and join the fun conversation and reading!
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Forever beloved. Greatly missed.Six year's today Salome Chilufya Besa Kapwepwe. Rest in peace mum.
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This stamp issue celebrated the walking safari. It is acknowledged the world over that South Luangwa, Zambia, is the birthplace of the walking safari where it was pioneered by the legendary Norman Carr in the 1960s. Walking safaris have now become a global tourism practice.
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This postage stamp was issued to celebrate our independence in 1964. It featured the Evelyn Hone College of Further Education which was officially opened in October 1963, by Evelyn Dennison Hone, the last Governor of Northern Rhodesia. The college started with 53 students.
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Zambezi Redwood was once the only timber exported from Zambia with main products being railway sleepers, mining timber and parquet flooring. Production peaked at 4000 m³/year of Zambezi teak in the 1930s and again in 1964. Sales values in the 1980s topped US$ 1m per year.
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The Coat of Arms of our cities. Ndola was founded in 1904, by John Edward "Chiripula" Stephenson. Founded in 1905 Livingstone became a municipality in 1927. Lusaka, established in 1913 achieved city status in 1960. Kitwe was founded in 1936 and achieved city status in 1966.
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Nyau, meaning mask or initiation is a secret society of the Chewa of Central and Southern Africa. The Nyau dancer Kasinja, wears a wooden mask decorated with chicken feathers and is always the first to appear at social events to open the arena for the rest of the Nyau to perform.
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The Toka (Southern Province) made tobacco pipes from burnt clay shaped into animal heads such as wild pigs, gnus, buffaloes, antelopes, oxen, goats and lions. While smoking all quarrels and disputes were suspended. Unknown visitors were invited to smoke as a sign of friendliness.
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Rhodesia’s Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, found Zambia importing all it's coal from a hostile regime. In response, Nkandabwe Mine and later Siankondobo Mine (later known as Maamba Mine) were developed. By 1968, the mines produced all Zambia’s coal requirements.
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The Broken Hill Man, a fossil whose age is still a dubject of debate was discovered on June 17th 1921 in Kabwe by Swiss miner Tom Zwigelaar. The skull continues to reside in the Natural History Museum in London despite efforts to repatriate it back to Zambia.
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Eclipse ya ba Ngoni😄 This stamp celebrated the great eclipse of 2001 by commemorating the Ngoni people crossing the Zambezi River near Zumbo into present day Zambia. Their crossing is historically dated by the eclipse that occurred on that day in 1835.
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Done! Launched the Digital Sharing Platform between Womens History Museum of Zambia and Swedish Ethnographic Museum!
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The first meeting of the Northern Rhodesia Parliament took place on 23rd May 1924 in Livingstone. The Zambian Parliament is one of the oldest continuously functioning legislatures in the Southern African Sub-region. The current Parliament building was opened on the 2nd May 1967.
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In January 1977, Zambian artists, intellectuals and performers with 17,000 others from 55 nations attended FESTAC '77, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture in Lagos, Nigeria, a celebration that remains the largest Pan-African festival in world history.
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Post runners delivered mail to many parts of the country and by 1908 nearly 150 were employed by the North Western Rhodesia Postal Authority. A runner was expected to cover twenty miles a day and carry up to forty pounds of mail. It took about fifteen days to cover 310 miles.
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For those who followed our animated podcast from the Women's History Museum on the Great Mukwae Matauka of Nalolo...here she is in her majesty.
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From October to December about 8 million fruit bats fly from the DR Congo to Zambia's Kasanka National Park in the largest mammal migration on Earth to pollinate and feed on wild fruits, dispersing seeds over more than 75km in one night, 3 times further than an elephant.
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Aquaculture research is said to have started in 1943 when six ponds were constructed at Chilanga to test local species for culture. This resulted in the identification of local cichlid species such as the green-headed bream, the red-breasted bream and the tiger fish.
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10th Independence anniversary. The Kafue Hook Bridge, constructed with Chinese Government Aid and commissioned by President Kenneth Kaunda on May 26 1973, was built on the 'hook' or bend of the Kafue River in the Kafue National Park. It links Lusaka, Central, Western provinces.
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An important part of Zambia's rich biodiversity, is our unique wildlife flora estimated at 3788 species of which 211 species are endemic to Zambia. Since the 1980s, Zambia has witnessed rapid degradation of this diversity due to mainly to destructive human activities.
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Remembering two great mothers on Mother's Day. Helen Jengwera Nyirenda Kaunda and Chileshe Mwansa Mbao Kapwepwe. One raised a President, the other a Vice-President.
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