BIG READ: Growing up in Africa’s most toxic town
New information come to light makes Yvonne Fontyn re-evaluate her birthplace of Kabwe, Zambia
04 October 2022 - 05:00
It’s true that the older you get, the more clearly you remember the past, whereas last week seems a blur.
I remember vividly the time I spent in Kabwe, the mining town called Broken Hill in what, until Zambian independence in 1964, was the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia. Over the past few years I have been researching Kabwe to write a book about a town that is remarkable in so many ways...
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