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Bwana_Brown Says: A strange piece of Zaire (Congo), called the Pedicle, sticks down into the middle of Zambia. This odd-looking bit of land came about as a result of the Belgian...
Bwana_Brown Says: Lake Bangweulu, in the southern part of Luapula Province is probably the most 'touristy' place in the area. I ended up here at Samfya in June, 1974 to finally...
Bwana_Brown Says: Zambia is a fairly large country, although it does not appear to be so if you casually glance at a map of Africa. In actual fact, at 752,000 square km, it is...
Bwana_Brown Says: The main source of income for Zambians in this part of the country derives from fishing in Lake Mweru. With both the Luapula and Kalungwishi Rivers feeding into...
Bwana_Brown Says: When I first arrived in Zambia, I had just enough money from my last summer job in Canada to buy a used car. It turned out to be a smallish Peugeot 204 station...
'Volunteer' Housing: A Mixed Crowd
Bwana_Brown Says: During those early years of the 70s, a number of positions in Zambia involving teaching and community health care were provided by 'Volunteer' organizations....
Bwana_Brown Says: March, 1974 saw me back in Luapula Province for a 3rd time as a Canadian friend and I finished off a circular trip (see my 'Northern Province' page) to the vast...
Bwana_Brown Says: The 350-mile (560-km) Luapula River drains the Lake Bangweulu wetlands area, one of the largest in the world. The high rainfall in this part of Zambia assures a...
Bwana_Brown Says: Located south and east of Lake Mweru, and up on the high ground of the escarpment, Kawambwa was a typical friendly Zambian village when I visited the area. In...
Bwana_Brown Says: Since Lake Mweru is shared with the Congo (Zaire in those days), another task of 'Ikana' was to show the Zambian flag to fishing boats registered in the Congo....
Bwana_Brown Says: One of the tasks that the fisheries patrol boat carried out was to monitor the various species of fish in Lake Mweru. To do this, various government-owned nets...
Bwana_Brown Says: In July, 1973 I was back at Nchelenge again for another go at Lake Mweru. This time, after finishing a trip to the 'closed' Lusenga Plain National Park (see my...
Luapula Province in the 'Old' Days
Of all the areas of Zambia, Luapula Province was where I most often ventured to sample what life was like away from the industrialized Copperbelt area where I lived and worked. In addition to the...
Build your own Luapula Province page
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