A historic British colonial city, Livingstone was named after David Livingstone, the Scottish explorer and missionary who was the first European to explore the area. Until 1935, Livingstone served as the capital city Northern Rhodesia. The city is a tourism attraction centre for the Victoria Falls and a border town…
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Zambia Philately: Lusaka
Lusaka was founded in 1905 as a water stop on the route and was named after a Chief Lusaaka, the leader of a nearby Lenje village. Lusaka lost some of its status to Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia when the latter became the capital of the merged Federation of Rhodesia and…
View More Zambia Philately: LusakaZambia Philately: Mbala
Mbala was a key outpost in British colonial control of this part of south-central Africa and was known as Abercorn. After Zambia’s independence in 1964, the name of the town was changed back to Mbala. Mbala is Zambia’s most northerly large town and seat of Mbala District in Northern Province,occupying…
View More Zambia Philately: MbalaZambia Philately: Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls (also known Mosi-oa-Tunya – The Smoke That Thunders) is a waterfall on the Zambezi River. It is located between Zambia and Rhodesia and is one of the world’s largest waterfalls. Though known to some European geographers before the 19th century, Scottish missionary David Livingstone identified the falls in…
View More Zambia Philately: Victoria FallsZambia Philately: Ndola
The town of Ndola was founded in 1904, by John Edward “Chiripula” Stephenson. The name Ndola is derived from the river, which originates in the Kaloko Hills and drains in the Kafubu River. It was started as a boma and trading post, which laid its foundations as an administrative and…
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View More Zambia Philately: Places of ZambiaZambia Philately: Zambezi
The Zambezi (also Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. The 2,574-kilometre-long (1,599 mi) river rises in Zambia and flows through eastern Angola, along the north-eastern border of Namibia and the northern border of…
View More Zambia Philately: ZambeziZambia Philately: 1964 Independence First Definitive Issue
Details Date of Issue: 24 October 1964 Reprintings: 26 October 1965 (4d) 3 January 1966 (2d) 24 August 1966 (½d, 2d & 4d) 24 February 1967 (3d, 6d, 9d, 1/-, 1/3d, 2/-, 2/6d, 10/-, £1) Date Withdrawn: 15 January 1968 (Statutory Instrument No.6 of 1968) Date Invalidated: 30 April 1968 (Statutory…
View More Zambia Philately: 1964 Independence First Definitive IssueZambia Philately: Defassa Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa)
The defassa waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa) is a large, robust animal with long, shaggy hair and a brown-gray coat that emits an oily secretion from its sweat glands, which acts as a water repellent. It also has large, rounded ears and white patches above the eyes, and around the nose and…
View More Zambia Philately: Defassa Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa)Zambia Philately: Zambesi Emperor (Nudaurelia Zambesina)
The Zambesi Emperor (Nudaurelia Zambesina) is a genus of moths in the family Saturniidae first described by Rothschild in 1895. This is one of the largest African Saturnid species. This family of moths has been named after the planet Saturn because, like the planet, the spots on the wings have…
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