Livingstone, Zambia

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Livingstone is a city in Zambia.

Victoria Falls[2][3][4] and a border town with road and rail connections to Zimbabwe on the other side of the Victoria Falls. A historic British colonial city, its present population was enumerated at 177,393 inhabitants at the 2022 census.[5] It is named after David Livingstone, the Scottish explorer and missionary who was the first European to explore the area.[6] Until 2011, Livingstone was the provincial capital of Zambia's Southern Province
.

History

Pre-colonial history

Mukuni, 9.6 km (6.0 mi) to the south-east of present-day Livingstone, was the largest village in the area before Livingstone was founded. Its

Congo in the 16th century. Another group of Baleya under Chief Sekute lived near the river west of the town. The predominant people in the area, though, were the Batoka under Chief Musokotwane based at Senkobo, 30 km (19 mi) north. These are southern Tonga people but are culturally and linguistically similar to the Baleya.[7]

Memorial to David Livingstone

The Subiya paid tribute to the

Subiya people of Sesheke over the Tokaleya. In 1855 Scottish missionary traveller David Livingstone became the first European to be shown the Zambezi in Livingstone vicinity, to see Victoria Falls by the Subiya-Kololo Chief Sekeletu.[8]

Colonial history

In the 1890s Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company established the British rule north of the Zambezi and launched a wave of mineral prospecting and exploration activity and as well ventured into other natural resources such as timber, ivory and animal skins in a territory called North-Western Rhodesia. The main crossing point of the Zambezi was above the falls at the Old Drift, first by dugout canoe, later by an iron boat propelled by eight Lozi paddlers, or a barge towed across with a steel cable. The Batoka Gorge and the deep valley and gorges of the middle Zambezi (now flooded by the Kariba Dam) meant there was no better crossing point between the Falls and Kariba Gorge, 483 km (300 mi) north-east. As the Old Drift crossing became more frequently used, a British colonial settlement sprang up there and around 1897 it became the first municipality in the country; it is sometimes referred to as 'Old Livingstone'. Its proximity to mosquito breeding areas caused deaths from malaria, so after 1900 the Europeans moved to higher ground known as Constitution Hill or Sandbelt Post Office, and as that area grew into a town it was named Livingstone in honour of the explorer.[9]

In the mid-1890s

built it to Cairo if he could. In 1904 the railway reached the Falls on the southern side and construction of the Victoria Falls Bridge started.[10] Too impatient to wait for its completion, Rhodes had the line from Livingstone to Kalomo built and operations started some months in advance of the bridge using a single locomotive which was conveyed in pieces by temporary cableway across the gorge next to the bridge building site.[11]

Livingstone in the early 20th century

The city was founded in 1905.[12] The British South Africa Company moved the capital of the territory there in 1907.[9] In 1911 the company merged the territory with North-Eastern Rhodesia as Northern Rhodesia. Livingstone prospered from its position as a gateway to trade between north and south sides of the Zambezi, as well as from farming in the Southern Province and commercial timber production from forests to its north-west. A number of colonial buildings were erected which still stand.[8] Although the capital was moved to Lusaka in 1935 to be closer to the economic heartland of the Copperbelt, industries based on timber, hides, tobacco, cotton (including textiles) and other agricultural products grew. A hydroelectric plant was built taking water from the Eastern Cataract of the Falls. The town of Victoria Falls in Southern Rhodesia had the tourist trade, but many supplies were bought from Livingstone.

Of all the towns in Northern Rhodesia, colonial Livingstone took on the most British character.

tradesman, as well as large numbers of non-working black families suffering under welfare dependency. Asians and people of mixed race owned businesses in the middle, on the eastern side of the centre.[1]

During World War II, 170 Polish refugees escaping from German- and Soviet-occupied Poland, were admitted in Livingstone in 1941, and a Polish consular post was established there.[14]

As the British government began publicly discussing independence, and news of the large scale

nationalisation in Zambia was announced.[19][20]

Post-independence

Some colonial civic buildings were destroyed and replaced with an

African architecture, although Livingstone was used as a location for a 1950s Rhodesian town in the 1981 movie The Grass Is Singing (based on the Doris Lessing novel of that name).[21]
. At the same time, a large infusion of cash from the British government to Zambia at independence was partially used in Livingstone.[22][23] Livingstone suffered economic decline in the 1970s due in part to renationalisation of industries[24][25] and in part to closure of the border with Rhodesia, first by the Zambian government and later by the Rhodesian authorities.[26]

Since the beginning of the 21st century, Livingstone has experienced a resurgence in tourism and has firmly become the destination of choice when visiting the Victoria Falls. Livingstone has enjoyed a slight influx of investment in the industry from modern hotel chains like

Trans–Caprivi Highway 200 km (120 mi) west, which funnels more trade through the town.[28][29][30]

Climate

Livingstone has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSh) with hot and rainy wet seasons and very hot pre-wet seasons and mild dry seasons with large temperature differences between day and night.

Climate data for Livingstone (1991–2020, extremes 1918–present)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 39.9
(103.8) 		38.4
(101.1) 		43.6
(110.5) 		37.0
(98.6) 		36.0
(96.8) 		35
(95) 		32.6
(90.7) 		37.5
(99.5) 		40.1
(104.2) 		41.3
(106.3) 		41.1
(106.0) 		39.5
(103.1) 		43.6
(110.5)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 30.9
(87.6) 		30.7
(87.3) 		31.1
(88.0) 		30.6
(87.1) 		29.0
(84.2) 		26.5
(79.7) 		26.1
(79.0) 		29.8
(85.6) 		33.6
(92.5) 		35.6
(96.1) 		33.9
(93.0) 		31.5
(88.7) 		30.8
(87.4)
Daily mean °C (°F) 25.2
(77.4) 		24.9
(76.8) 		24.6
(76.3) 		22.9
(73.2) 		20.1
(68.2) 		17.4
(63.3) 		16.9
(62.4) 		20.4
(68.7) 		24.5
(76.1) 		27.4
(81.3) 		27.0
(80.6) 		25.6
(78.1) 		23.0
(73.4)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 19.4
(66.9) 		19.0
(66.2) 		18.0
(64.4) 		15.1
(59.2) 		11.1
(52.0) 		8.2
(46.8) 		7.6
(45.7) 		10.9
(51.6) 		15.4
(59.7) 		19.2
(66.6) 		20.0
(68.0) 		19.6
(67.3) 		15.3
(59.5)
Record low °C (°F) 9.8
(49.6) 		8
(46) 		7
(45) 		4.3
(39.7) 		0.5
(32.9) 		−5.9
(21.4) 		−3.0
(26.6) 		−1.7
(28.9) 		1.0
(33.8) 		8.1
(46.6) 		11
(52) 		10.8
(51.4) 		−3.7
(25.3)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 175.2
(6.90) 		133.2
(5.24) 		83.3
(3.28) 		19.5
(0.77) 		2.4
(0.09) 		0.2
(0.01) 		0.1
(0.00) 		0.3
(0.01) 		1.4
(0.06) 		11.1
(0.44) 		77.7
(3.06) 		141.9
(5.59) 		646.3
(25.44)
Average
relative humidity
(%) 		74.8 77.3 72.2 65.1 57.7 55.0 51.8 43.3 35.1 41.7 55.2 71.0 58.4
Mean monthly sunshine hours 213.9 196.0 251.1 273.0 303.8 288.0 310.0 319.3 297.0 279.0 228.0 207.7 3,166.8
Source 1: NOAA (humidity and sun 1961–1990)[31][32]
Source 2: Meteo Climat (record highs and lows)[33]

Transport

See also: Transport in Zambia

Air

Main terminal of the Harry Mwanga Nkumbula International Airport

The city is served by

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Rail

The city is served by the operating sections of the Cape to Cairo Railway, which connect it to Lusaka in the north-east and Bulawayo in the south-east. The railway to Lusaka is also named the Zambia Railway. The Mulobezi Railway connects Livingstone to the Mulobezi timber industry in the west.[36][37]

Road

The

Lusaka-Livingstone road (T1 road) connects Livingstone with Kalomo, Choma and the national capital (Lusaka) in the north-east.[38] The same road connects southwards, crossing into Zimbabwe via Victoria Falls Bridge[38] (weight restrictions apply) (becoming the A8 road on the Zimbabwean side and passing through Victoria Falls Town before proceeding to Bulawayo
).

The M10 road connects westwards to Kazungula (where the Kazungula Bridge, formerly the Kazungula Ferry, connects with the border into Botswana) and to Sesheke (where it crosses the Zambezi as the Katima Mulilo Bridge and reaches the Katima Mulilo Border with Namibia). This road from Livingstone to the Katima Mulilo Bridge is part of the Walvis Bay-Ndola-Lubumbashi Development Road. The M10 further connects with Senanga and Mongu.[38]

Places of worship

Among the

Hindu temples.[40]
Previously, Livingstone hosted a strong Jewish community.

Culture

Livingstone Museum

Livingstone has various museums, like the Livingstone Museum (archaeology, ethnography and history and contains a collection of memorabilia relating to David Livingstone), the Maramba Cultural Museum (featuring traditional dancing, singing, costumes), the Railway Museum of the Mulobezi Railway and the Victoria Falls Field Museum (featuring geology and archaeology around the Falls).[41][1]

Livingstone Water Tank
Ellipsen Waterbuck at Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, Livingstone, Zambia.

Education

Secondary schools in the area include Hillcrest Technical Secondary School and Linda Secondary School.

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Zambia

Livingstone is twinned with:

See also

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External links

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