Mwelwa C Musambachime: 4 books

This study focuses on the study of metallurgy in pre-colonial Zambia to 1890. A general review of the literature on metallurgy in pre-colonial Zambia reveals that during the period our study (up to 1890), three metals were mined. Iron production was a widespread, important and significant phenomenon,...

In Zambia, the history of industrial and commercial mining is over 115 years. The earlier period, from 1900 to 1920, is least known. It is ignored, passed over, or referred to in passing by academics and non-academics. The earlier period forms the building blocks on which the later more successful...

Zambia became an independent Republic of Zambia on 24 October 1964, with Kenneth Kaunda as the first president for twenty-seven years, He and his successors have, over the last fifty years, created a stable and united nation under the motto One Zambia, One Nation. Zambia is regarded as a beautiful,...

As late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, despite the many years of direct contact with European traders and the influx of European goods, most African societies still produced their own iron and its products, or obtained them from neighbouring communities through local trade. The quality...