Zambia’s diverse cultures bring with them a wide variety of traditional skills. Crafts can be found in great variety if not in abundance and among them is some of the finest basketry in Africa. The economy of most of the crafts people is based on fishing, cattle or the cultivation…
View More Zambia Philately: Arts & CraftsTigerfish can refer to fish from various families, and derives from official and colloquial associations of these with the tiger (Panthera tigris). However, the primary species designated by the name “tigerfish” are African and belong to the family Alestidae. The Tiger Fish is also known as the “striped water dog.”…
View More Zambia Philately: Tiger Fish (Hydrocynus vittatus)Oreochromis macrochir (greenhead bream) is a species of cichlid native to the Zambezi Basin, Lake Mweru, and Lake Bangweulu. It has been used extensively for stocking ponds and dams in other parts of southern Africa, but is little-used elsewhere. In Lake Mweru, it is economically the most important fish. The…
View More Zambia Philately: Green-Headed Bream (Tilapia macrochir)The Red-breasted bream (redbreast tilapia), Coptodon rendalli, is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family. The species is found in the drainage basins of the upper Congo River and the Kasai River, in Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi, Zambezi River, and the coastal regions of the Zambezi outlet to KwaZulu-Natal,…
View More Zambia Philately: Red-Breasted Bream (Tilapia rendalli)The African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large sub-Saharan African bovine. There are five subspecies that are recognized as being valid. Syncerus caffer caffer, the Cape buffalo, is the nominotypical subspecies, and the largest one, found in Southern and East Africa. The African buffalo is more closely related to other buffalo species…
View More Zambia Philately: African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer)The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five extant species in the genus Panthera. It has a pale yellowish to dark golden fur with dark spots grouped in rosettes. The leopard was first described in 1758, and several subspecies were proposed in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is adapted…
View More Zambia Philately: Leopard (Panthera pardus)When Zambia achieved independence in 1964, the country embarked on a long-overdue investment in communications. Support for the investment in the 1960s and 1970s was through China which had established itself as an African ally through south-south cooperation and aid. Details Designer: Gabriel Ellison Printer: Harrison & Sons Ltd. Process: Photogravure Paper: Watermark: None…
View More Zambia Philately: 1964 Independence First Definitive Issue – 6d Communications Old & NewA B C D E F G H I J K L M Makumbi (M.V.) N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Zambian Airways Corporation (Aer Lingus) Zambian Airways Corporation (Alitalia)
View More Zambia Philately: TransportationExploitation of the Mufulira property began in 1929 but was severely handicapped by the financial depression. Early in February 1930, the Rhodesian Selection Trust, the British South Africa Company and the Bwana Mkubwa company agreed to sell the Mufulira Special Grant to Mufulira Copper Mines Ltd which incorporated 2 March…
View More Zambia Philately: Mufulira Copper Mines LtdBangweulu (“where the water sky meets the sky”) is one of the world’s great wetland systems, comprising Lake Bangweulu, the Bangweulu Swamps and the Bangweulu Flats or floodplain. The Bangweulu system is fed by about seventeen rivers of which the Chambeshi (the source of the Congo River) is the largest,…
View More Zambia Philately: Lake Bangweulu