Zambia
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A very brief history of Zambia

Khoisan hunter-gatherers lived in this land and Bantu migrations from central africa replaced them.   Batonga (Tonga), Lozi, Luba, Lunda, Ngoni and  Nkoya people were living in the present day Zambia when the western explorers and later commercial explorers arrived in the nineteenth century.

Lozi and Ngoni people ressisted the occupation by Cecil Rhodes but lost. And the area came under British South African Company and called Northern Rhodesia. It was formally transferred to British rule in 1924. Northern and Southern Rhodesia  were joined with Nyasaland to form a federation in 1955. The federation was dissolved in 1964 and Northern Rhodesia  became an independent nation of Zambia (named after Zambezi River). Great natural waterfalls on the Zambezi river are called Mosi-O-Tunya ( "the smoke that thunders" in the Lozi or Kololo language ) and the Victoria Falls by westerners.
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Reference: Wikipedia
RK. November 23, 2006.