THE POST INDEPENDENCE NEGLECT OF MBALA, MY HOMETOWNDear Editor,MBALA, my hometown hosted the earliest man in Zambia. Archaeological sites in the area, such as at Kalambo Falls, provides a record of human activity in the Mbala area over the past 300, 000 years! No other place in Zambia holds this record.The area was ravaged by the slave trade during much of the 19th Century. For this reason, it became the focus of British interest following reports by the explorer David Livingstone, the first European to visit the area, in the 1860s. He was followed by other missionaries of the London Missionary Society who worked tirelessly in the area to end the slave trade.In terms of modern civilisation, Mbala was the first place in Zambia to have a telephone access to Her Majesty the Queen of England. A telephone line from Blantyre, Malawi, reached Mbala in 1889, almost 130 years ago.Mbala also had the first airport in Zambia, operational by 1905, which is 115 years ago. This […]
THE POST INDEPENDENCE NEGLECT OF MBALA, MY HOMETOWN
