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| restingplace = World's View,<br />Matopos Hills, Southern Rhodesia<br />(now Zimbabwe) ...s 18, and over the next two decades gained near-complete domination of the world diamond market. His De Beers diamond company, formed in 1888, retains its p

...human liberties. They also threatened to support the various [[liberation war]]s if negotiations failed. ...them from openly criticising its repressive internal politics. This policy first was openly opposed only by [[Tanzania]] under president [[Julius Nyerere]]

The Victoria Falls Bridge did not bring the first train or the first railway to Zambia. To push on with construction of the railway north as fas ...ng the [[Rhodesia#UDI|Rhodesian UDI crisis]] and [[Rhodesian Bush War|Bush War]] the bridge was frequently closed (and regular passenger services have not

As a soldier in East Africa during World War II, he had acquired a profound distance for racism and the assumptions of w ...ts independence in 1964.<ref name="cnn">[http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/19/world/africa/zambia-jewish-history/index.html CNN, The forgotten story of Zambia'

|residence_time = 5500 years<ref>{{cite book |last=Yohannes |first=Okbazghi |title=Water resources and inter-riparian relations in the Nile ba ...o be the [[List of lakes by volume|second largest freshwater lake]] in the world by volume, and the [[List of lakes by depth|second deepest]], in both cases

...6}}</ref> Katongo's career in Libya was cut short by the 2011 Libyan civil war, which saw the Zambian government sending a plane to rescue him.<ref>{{cite ...ball team|Zambia]] in 2004,<ref name = "NFT"/> and he has appeared in FIFA World Cup qualifying matches.

...= 978-0-14-100984-1 }}</ref> Bryan Perrett's ''Gunboat! Small Ships at War'', H. P. Willmott's ''The Last Century of Sea Power'' and Peter Shankland's ...liche Marine|German Imperial Navy]] still actively sailing anywhere in the world.

Before the Great East Road, the first direct vehicle access to the east of any kind was a track made in 1929 by t ...better road to assert their control over the Eastern Province, and the '''first Great East Road''' was built in 1932 from the [[Great North Road, Zambia|Gr

...later reflected in his art. He trained as a school teacher but when World War II broke out he enlisted with the East African Division and served in Burma ...S) as an announcer-translator, who also claimed he could 'sing a bit'. The first song on this collection was the most popular of all his songs, but all of t

The first chief appointed was Namulinda as [[Chief Nawaitwika]] to rule over the Namw • First United Church of Zambia (UCZ) was built in Nakonde around 1914.

...the discovery of the Broken Hill skull in [[Kabwe]] in 1921 - this was the first human fossil ever discovered in Africa.<ref>http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-onl ...ry. [[Arab]] and Portuguese traders were visiting by the 18th Century. The first recorded European visitors to Zambia were the Portuguese [[Manuel Caetano P

...iver but in his hunt for the origin of the [[Nile]], Mwata Kazembe was the first to tell him that the Luapula connects the Chambeshi/Bangweulu and Mweru/Luv ...irst missionaries in Central Africa were also attracted to the valley. The first was the [[Garanganze Mission]] of the [[Plymouth Brethren]] at Mambilima ar

...a in 1910 to a British Army African Sergeant who served in the First World War. At the age of 28, she travelled with her husband to [[Lusaka]] to seek emp ..., but Mama Chikamoneka, along with other women such as Zambia's first ever First Lady [[Mama Betty Kaunda]], [[Emelia Saidi]] and [[Mandalena Mumba]], organ

...ria Falls Bridge]] from the then Southern Rhodesia to [[Livingstone]]. The first wagons on the line were hauled by oxen, then a single locomotive was convey ...r value. Copper deposits found in Northern Rhodesia before the First World War proved uneconomic to develop.<ref name="S Katzenellenbogen, 1974 pp. 63-4"/

...e often formed in pairs or groups. To Fanizani, family represents a poetic world, moving in its simplicity and its tenderness." </blockquote>

...ish interest as a result of travels by the explorer David Livingstone, the first European to visit the area, in the 1860s. He was followed some years later ...here von Lettow-Vorbeck formally surrendered at the end of the First World War, designed by [[Edwin Lutyens|Sir Edwin Lutyens]]]]

|era = Cold War ...ates were united in wanting to end colonialism in Africa. With most of the world moving away from colonialism during the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Uni

...rominently overcoming the [[Northern Ndebele people|Matabele]] army in the First and Second Matabele Wars of the 1890s.{{refn|group=n|name=matabele1|The [[N ...ns fought alongside the British in the Second Boer War and the First World War; about 40% of Southern Rhodesian white men fought in the latter, mostly on

...E MIDST OF DEEP SORROW FOLLOWING THE PASSING ON OF OUR FOUNDING FATHER AND FIRST REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT, DR. KENNETH DAVID KAUNDA. DESPITE THESE WELL THOUGHT OUT INTERVENTIONS, TODAY’S WORLD ECONOMY IS MORE COMPLEX THAN EVER BEFORE.

| designation1_date = 1989 <small>(13th [[World Heritage Committee|session]])</small> | designation1_free2value = [[List of World Heritage Sites in Africa|Africa]]