Zambezi

3.0 Results From historical and epidemiological perspectives search, three different zones harbour plague endemic foci in Zambia. These are:- Eastern zone, which includes Luangwa valley, where outbreaks occurred in Tembwe village in Chama district, Mukomba village in Lundazi district and Chief Nyanje in Sinda district; the Southern zone, which includes Kabulamwanda and surrounding villages in Namwala district and Western zone which includes Chitokoloki in Balovale (Zambezi district) in Zambezi plain (Fig 1, Table 2). 3.1. Eastern zone 3.1.1. Luangwa and Lundazi outbreaks According to available information, the first reported plague outbreak in Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) was recorded in this area in 1917, and it involved 96 cases and 93 deaths (Case Fatality (CF) =96.8%). The outbreak occurred at Tembwe virizi village (11o20 'S, 32o57 'E) in the North of the Luangwa valley in Chama district (Fig 1). This was followed by another outbreak in 1918, which reportedly involved 59 cases and 57 deaths (CF=96.6%). Of these cases, 33 (55.5%) and 26 (44.1%) were females and males respectively. Concurrently, during the plague outbreak, there was epizootic among local house rats (Rattus rattus) and increase in flea population,…

spark debate as cattle are believed to have been introduced at a much later stage than this date. 2.2 Route Most theories of Khoekhoen migration agree that these groups of people migrated from the Zambezi Valley into the south-western Cape, but the debate is sparked by different suggestions of the specific route that the Khoekhoen followed on their southwardly migration (Mountain 2003:41). Bonzaier (1996:25) suggests that the Khoekhoen could have followed a migration route that crossed the…

He believed the best way to open up the rest of Africa to missionary work involved exploring and mapping rivers to navigate the interior. So from 1852 to 1856, Livingstone explored central Africa and documented almost the entirety of the Zambezi. He stumbled upon Mosi-oa-Tunya waterfall during his journey and renamed it Victoria Falls. Dr. Livingstone crossed Africa from the Atlantic, in Luanda, to the Indian Ocean, in Quelimane, one of the first Europeans to do so, between 1854 and 1856.…

Rather than have the owners of the farm work on it, they just bought slaves to keep the land tended to. "The clove plantations on Zanzibar and Pemba set up by Sultan Seyyid Said, needed labour."(BBC, paragraph 5). Eventually, the French ended up building coffee and sugar farms out in Mauritius and Reunion which also needed slaves from the same trade route. The different types of people that dealt with the trading of slaves in different areas included: the Prazeros working on the Zambezi River,…

in both Guinea and Angola. On the east coast the Portuguese were drawn to Mozambique and the Zambezi river by news of a local ruler, the Munhumutapa, who has fabulous wealth in gold. Besides areas around the Indian Ocean, the Portuguese utilized the west coast of Africa where the Portuguese dominated the slave trade. The Portuguese sent most of the captured Africans to work in their one western colony, Brazil. (Hays) This resulted in the Portuguese taking what they had and going to work in the…

connected to my country. Mozambique is a country within Africa below the Sahara desert or the "Hot" desert. Mozambiaque is bordered by many different countries such as Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It aslo has marine boarders such as Comoros, Madagascar and Mayotte Island (France). The absolute location of Mozambique is 25.9500° S, 32.5833° E. Mozambique has a tropical climate with 2 seasons. They have a wet season that last from October to March and a dry season from…

In June 2006, an international effort was mounted to rescue people stranded by major flooding of the Zambezi River. Ethiopia, which experienced many droughts, suffered another major one during the 2002–2006 period. Several major lakes on the African continent are drying up. Lake Chad is the most vulnerable, as it is so close to the Sahara Desert. Lake Nakuru in Kenya is surprisingly, one of the few lakes in Africa that are rising.. This lake is a significant habitat for flamingos and other…

being gold they traded gold for salt their salt was more precious than gold. Mali was the center of wealth and luxury in Africa. Mansa Musa was one of the wealthiest men at that time. He was the king of Mali and made Mali one of the wealthiest places on the Earth at that time. "He ruled from about 1312 until his death in 1337."(80) He pushed the borders of Mali and captured mines of gold and salt. He influenced his entire community by adopting Islam and taking a pilgrimage to Mecca. In addition,…

person of his time; wrote full accounts of his travels to China, Islamic lands, Spain and the western Sudan 8. Marco Polo- Venetian traveler, who after visiting China, wrote a book on his travels when he went back to Italy 1295 9. Xuanzang- Buddhist monk who visited India’s holy sites of Buddhism to learn more about his faith; crossed 3 mountain ranges: the Tian Shan, Hindu Kush, and Pamir ranges; came back China where he translated Buddhist documents into Chinese to help promoted his faith in…

trade is legitimate, being weighed accurately and gone through with formally. They take slabs of salt as tax from the merchants. The king has a rule of only him being able to own to own gold nuggets, with this the market doesn’t get flooded and it keeps the price of it down. The original leaders of Ghana decided to convert to Islam, but some of the citizens still rejected it and stuck to the traditional animistic beliefs that can be traced back to their origins even. The original Berbers were…