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8:49 CAT | 24 Oct 2018
Gift Chingimbu balances a baby of one of his passengers on his back as he paddles away his canoe across the Zambezi River for the Likumbi Lyamize traditional ceremony. Picture: Lusaka Times
Zambia got its name from the Mighty Zambezi river with its source in the Ikelengi hills in Mwinilunga district.
A monument at the Zambezi source was unveiled on October 24, 1964. There is a copper plate at the centre of the independence monument. It’s inscribed, “This plague unveiled on 24 October, 1964… is dedicated to those people, men and women, who by their personal sacrifice enabled independence to be achieved.
Zambezi comes from the Lunda expression Nzambi enzi which literally means “God Come”.Kalonga ka Nzambi means the river of God
Therefore Zambia means Land of God.
Happy 54th Birthday Zambia!!
Source: Lusaka Times
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