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Zambia
By Madelyn
Where Is Zambia?
Zambia is located in
southern Africa, south
of Angola and north of
Zimbabwe.
Basic Information About Zambia
Total area: 752,618 sq km
Population: Around 12 million
Life Expectancy: 38.63 years
Major Religious Groups: Christian
(50-75%), Muslim/Hindu (2449%), Indigenous practices
(1%)
Type of government: Republic
Gross Domestic Product per Capita
(GDP): $1500, ZK 7,012,500
TV Stations: 9
Military Expenditures: 1.8% of GDP
A Brief History of Zambia
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First inhabitants were the nomadic
Bushmen
The first real contact with the West
was with Portuguese and Arab
traders/explorers
The First Englishman to visit
Zambia, then known as Northern
Rhodesia was David Livingstone
(pictured at left) in 1851
Livingstone named the Mosi-aoTunya waterfall after the queen. We
now call it Victoria Falls
In 1888 Northern Rhodesia was
declared an English colony
Gaining independence on 24
October 1964, its name was
changed to Zambia
Copper Trade
For the English, the single most
valuable thing that the area now
known as Zambia possessed
was copper. By the 1930s,
Northern Rhodesia produced
around 2% of the world’s
copper. Around World War II,
the price of copper and other
metals had increased by so
much that the miners demanded
more money for their work. A
higher pay was granted- but
only for the white workers of
English descent.
Government
► The
formal title: The
Republic of Zambia
► Capital city: Lusaka
► Independence Day:24
October
► Suffrage: 18 years
► Current President:
Rupiah Banda
Victoria Falls
► Located
on the Zambezi river, between
Zambia and Zimbabwe
► Officially called Mosi-oa-Tunya in Zambia
► Forms the largest curtain of falling water on
the planet
► Has a width of 1.7km and a height of 108m
► Attracts millions of visitors each year
Victoria Falls
HIV/AIDS in Zambia
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More the one in seven adults in
Zambia is living with either HIV
or AIDS
Zambia’s first AIDS case was
reported in 1984
Over 600,000 children are
either living with or orphaned
by HIV/AIDS
In 2004, President Mwanawasa
promised to provide medicine
for 10,000 Zambians in need.
He more than surpassed his
goal, and Zambia has one of
the brightest futures of any
disease torn nation on the
planet.
Citations
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"BBC News - Zambia country profile." BBC NEWS |
News Front Page. N.p., 18 Nov. 2009. Web. 13 Feb.
2010.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/country_profiles/
1069294.stm>.
"Africa:Zambia." The World Factbook. CIA, 15 Jan.
2010. Web. 12 Feb. 2010.
<https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-worldfactbook/geos/za.html>.
"History of Zambia - Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Feb. 2010.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Zambia>.
.. "HIV/AIDS in Zambia." AIDS & HIV information
from the AIDS charity AVERT. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Feb.
2010. <http://www.avert.org/aids-zambia.htm>.
All photos via Wikimedia Commons