Category: Places of Interest
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Impembwe at Shimulundu
Shimulundu is a village in Chieftainess Kanyembo’s area in Nchelenge District of the Luapula Province in Zambia. Here, like at Chomba and Toka, exists a Defensive Trench (Impembwe) dug during the years of tribal migrations. The trench at Shimulundu encloses a circular area of land, unlike the one at Chomba which encloses a rectangular area.…
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Impembwe at Chomba
Up to the end of the 1960s, the whole Defensive Trence (Impembwe) at Chomba in Chieftainess Kanyembo’s area of Nchelenge District in the Luapula Province of Zambia was very distinct. This trench, enclosing a rectangular area of 12 hectares in size, and completely straight on all the four sides of the enclosed area, had not…
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Impembwe – A Defensive Trench
Impembwe is a defensive trench in Zambia dug around a village to defend it against invading enemy forces. The trench would be dug around the village where the migrating tribe decided to settle. They dug the trenches to defend themselves and their villages against their enemies during tribal wars of migration. The trenches would be…
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Tourist Capital
The city of Livingstone, located in the southern part of Zambia and in Southern Province, is the Tourist Capital of Zambia. Livingstone hosts the world famous Victoria falls, seen by the Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone in 1885. He named it Victoria Falls, after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. The falls lies…
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