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What Is Behind Lusaka Township Names

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Zambia, History

In commemorating Zambia's capital city’s centenary this year, Gershom discusses [1] the origins of Lusaka township names:

Obviously, a number of other writers have written about some of the names of some of the townships and residential areas such as John Laing, John Howard, Kuku and others having been farms belonging to those people and Kuku having been a cooks’ quarters. I will not talk about these names.