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Development links
Project Educate A non-profit org. based in the United States whose purpose is to help
improve educational standards and infrastructure in Zambia. In 2006, Project Educate began
importing into Zambia hundreds of second hand computers that are then brought back to life and donated to schools in Western Province for use in IT
training for local school pupils. So far, schools in and around Mongu have been the first to benefit including Imwiko, Mulambwa and Namushakendi Primary
schools and Holy Cross Girls' Secondary School. Equipment has also been donated to Mongu Teachers Training College, Lewanika General Hospital, the Barotse
Royal Establishment and the Barotseland.com office in Mongu. Check out the Project Educate website for more information.
History links
Entry for Barotseland in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica
Christopher Buyers
Emil Holub - first cartographer of the Victoria Falls
- piece about the Czech traveller and ethnographer Emil Holub who visited Sesheke-Mwandi in 1875-6, meeting Litunga Sipopa (Lutangu) who made
his capital there in the 1870s. During his sojourn at Sesheke-Mwandi,
Holub tried in vain to reach the heartland of the Lozi kingdom, turning back from Sioma due to disease and loss of possessions.
Holub made a second expedition to the region in 1885-6 when he and his wife travelled north as far as the Ba-Ila or Mushukulumbwe who came under
Lozi
domination during the second half of the nineteenth century. Here, however, the Holubs and their retainers came under attack and had to flee for
their lives.
This account of Holub is provided by the serving Czech Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi, H.E. Jaroslav
Olsa who has conducted extensive research into the life of Holub and also established an exhibition to Holub in the Nayuma Museum, Limulunga,
during Kuomboka 2004. A statue to Holub was unveiled in the grounds of the Livingstone Museum on 17th September 2005.
Ethno-atlas summary entry - Society: Lozi - University of Caterbury, Kent, UK
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