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BA MWENYE – HOW ZAMBIANS BEGAN CALLING INDIANS “MWENYE”

BA MWENYE - HOW ZAMBIANS BEGAN CALLING INDIANS "MWENYE" Indians from Gujarat arrived in what was then the British territory of North-Eastern Rhodesia (later part of Northern Rhodesia and now Zambia) in 1905 via Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) or the British Central Africa Protectorate...

KING MPHEZENI III

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THE FIRST INDIGENOUS ZAMBIA ARMY COMMANDER-GENERAL KINGSLEY CHINKULI

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HERE LIES JOHN CHINENA

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SNAPSHOT IN HISTORY: ZAMBIA AND TRIBAL POLITICS 1971

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