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News Zambia » History: The forgotten story of Zambia’s Jewish settlers

News channel or source: https://www.cnn.com/2012/01/19/world/africa/zambia-jewish-history

Published on: Wednesday 18 January 2012

The city of Livingstone, in Zambia, is located just 10 kilometers from the spectacular Victoria Falls. Its proximity to the falls makes it a tourist destination, but it also boasts an almost-forgotten ...

News Zambia » History: A railway museum in Zambia offers a clue to the African country’s rich Jewish history

News channel or source: https://forward.com/news/622390/a-railway-museum-in-zambia-offers-a-clue-to-the-african-countrys-rich-jewish-history/

Published on: Wednesday 12 June 2024

LIVINGSTONE, Zambia — On the outskirts of this frontier town about seven miles from spectacular Victoria Falls, a wooden building marked “Gateway Jewish Museum” stands amidst 100-year old steam ...

News Zambia » History: Zambia's past, present, and future · February, 2021

News channel or source: https://globalvoices.org/special/zambias-past-present-and-future/?m=202102

Published on: Monday 04 December 2023

Zambia, a landlocked country situated at the crossroads of Central, Southern, and East Africa, boasts a landscape of vast geographic diversity, coupled with a rich history and cultural heritage. With ...

News Zambia » History: Zambia's past, present, and future · July, 2016

News channel or source: https://globalvoices.org/special/zambias-past-present-and-future/?m=201607

Published on: Monday 04 December 2023

Zambia, a landlocked country situated at the crossroads of Central, Southern, and East Africa, boasts a landscape of vast geographic diversity, coupled with a rich history and cultural heritage. With ...

News Zambia » History: A Copper Mining Lesson From Zambia: History Repeats Itself

News channel or source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-23/a-copper-mining-lesson-from-zambia-history-repeats-itself

Published on: Thursday 23 May 2019

Vedanta Resources Ltd. is learning the hard way that when it comes to Zambia’s copper-mining industry, history tends to repeat itself. Fifty years ago, Zambia’s first post-independence leader Kenneth ...

News Zambia » History: How history explains election violence: Kenya and Zambia tell the story

News channel or source: https://theconversation.com/how-history-explains-election-violence-kenya-and-zambia-tell-the-story-131405

Published on: Sunday 16 February 2020

Supporters of Zambia’s president-elect Edgar Lungu in 2016. The country is known for peaceful polls, but this one was marked by clashes. Dawood Salim/AFP via Getty Images Why do the first multiparty ...