COPPERBELT

mining region, N central Zambia, central Africa. A natural extension of the mineral-rich region of Katanga, the Copperbelt is one of the richest sources of copper in the world. Cobalt, selenium, silver, and gold are also produced.

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books on: Copperbelt  - 281 results

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Scenes from African Urban Life: Collected Copperbelt Papers
Book by A. L. Epstein; Edinburgh University Press, 1992
Subjects: City And Town Life--Zambia, Zambia--Social Conditions, Zambia--Social Life And Customs
...Scenes from African Urban Life: Collected Copperbelt Papers A. L. EPSTEIN EDINBURGH...from African urban life: Collected copperbelt essays. I. Title 307.76096894 ISBN...Retrospect: an Anthropologist on the Copperbelt in the 1950s 1...
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Politics in an Urban African Community
Book by A. L. Epstein; Manchester University Press, 1958
Subjects: Cities And Towns--Zambia--Case Studies, Luanshya (Zambia), Zambia--Politics And Government
...going forward, And we the people, too. COPPERBELT POPULAR SONG. CONTENTS...I THE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE OF A COPPERBELT TOWN 1...on Tribal Representation on the Copperbelt, March, 1953 100...
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Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology
Book by Akhil Gupta, James Ferguson; Duke University Press, 1997
Subjects: Anthropology--Methodology, Anthropology--Philosophy, Geographical Perception
...The Country and the City on the Copperbelt James Ferguson 137 Rethinking Modernity: Space and...political arena found echoes in the lives of workers in the Copperbelt. But the enormous economic decline of the 1980s changed...
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Handbook to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Book by W. V. Brelsford; Cassell, 1960
Subjects: Rhodesia And Nyasaland
...Northern Rhodesia are Lusaka and the Copperbelt towns. The estimated population of...200 Coloured persons. The five main Copperbelt towns with their European populations...dancers Scottish dancing on the Copperbelt Social occassions This westerly air...
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The Two Nations: Aspects of the Development of Race Relations in the Rhodesias and Nyasaland
Book by Richard Gray; Oxford University Press, 1960
Subjects: Rhodesia And Nyasaland--Native Races
...on page 44 2. Towns of the Copperbelt --on page 113 3. General...principal suppliers of copper to the world market and the Copperbelt was entering its first boom. 113 The 1931 Census enumerated...
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journal articles on: Copperbelt  - 54 results

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"A Little Bit like a Volcano"-the United Progressive Party and Resistance to One-party Rule in Zambia, 1964-1980*
Journal article by Miles Larmer; The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 39, 2006
Subjects: Activism, Economic development, Failure, Historical analysis, Linguistics, Politics, Property rights
...on three key constituencies. On the Copperbelt, the UPP received substantial support...struggle (and intimately connected to the Copperbelt by kin-based labor migration and financial...in the self-consciously multiethnic Copperbelt.6 Variegated and contradictory postcolonial...
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Reinterpreting the Rural-Urban Connection: Migration Practices and Socio-Cultural Dispositions of Buhera Workers in Harare
Journal article by Jens A. Andersson; Africa, Vol. 71, 2001
Subjects: Harare, Zimbabwe--Social aspects, Migrant labor--Social aspects, Rural-urban migration--Zimbabwe, Social networks--Zimbabwe
...lives of mineworkers on the Zambian Copperbelt in the late 1980s. He found that mineworkers...localist cultural styles on the Zambian Copperbelt, Ferguson stresses that `localism was...of such institutions on the urbanised Copperbelt. Registrations of burial societies in...
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Why African Churches Preach Politics: the Case of Zambia
Journal article by Isaac Phiri; Journal of Church and State, Vol. 41, 1999
Subjects: Catholic churches, Church & state, History, Politics, Society, Zambia
...mineral-rich region now known as the Copperbelt Province. It was only a matter of time...culminating in violent strikes in the Copperbelt. Police killed six people and injured...A Missionary Conference held in the Copperbelt city of Ndola two weeks after these...
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Missionaries, Church Movements, and the Shifting Religious Significance of the State in Zambia
Journal article by R. Drew Smith; Journal of Church and State, Vol. 41, 1999
Subjects: Christianity, Government, History, Missionaries, Religion, Zambia
...which was founded about 1925 in the Copperbelt during Zambias copper boom. By the mid-1920s, Africans were migrating to the Copperbelt in large numbers in response to increased...only 1,300 Africans employed on the Copperbelt, by 1930 there were nearly 22,000."31...
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Shall We Go Home? Increasing Urban Poverty in African Cities and Migration Processes
Journal article by Deborah Potts; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 161, 1995
Subjects: Rural-urban migration--Research, Sub-Saharan Africa--Emigration and immigration, Urbanization--Economic aspects
...very few analysts have noted that the Copperbelt towns have tended to grow more slowly...counter-urbanization was occurring on the Copperbelt - the other analyses rest on various...land is the only option for many in the Copperbelt. Purbrick, 1990: 145-6 On the basis...
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magazine articles on: Copperbelt  - 45 results

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Zambia's Star Farm Looking for Investors
Magazine article; African Business, October 2001
...hectare estate, situated near Zambias copperbelt mining region is to go on sale. Tom...000-hectare estate is situated near Zambias copperbelt mining region and produces an annual...mainly into the nearby markets of the copperbelt and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC...
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Coughing Up Copper
Magazine article by Palekelo Liswaniso; African Business, March 1997
Subjects: Air pollution--Environmental aspects, Pollution, Zambia
...are looking for, head straight for the Copperbelt, preferably on a pay-day. Whether it...underground shafts. But it is not only the Copperbelt which is suffering from air pollution...of sulphur dioxide every year in the Copperbelt. To make matters worse, it is not...
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JICA in Zambia: A Little Goes a Long Way
Magazine article; African Business, June 1998
Subjects: Japan. International Cooperation Agency
...off north to Ndola and Kitwe in the copperbelt. JICAs activities in Zambia began in...The next day we set off by road to the copperbelt in the north-west of the country. Besides...independence, were now returning to farm in the copperbelt area. Despite the fact that the copper...
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JICA in Zambia: A Little Goes a Long Way
Magazine article by Anver Versi; African Business, June 1998
Subjects: Foreign assistance, Health care industry--Zambia, Japan, Japan. International Cooperation Agency--Services, Japanese foreign relations--Zambia, Urban planning, Zambia, Zambian foreign relations--Japan
...off north to Ndola and Kitwe in the copperbelt. JICAs activities in Zambia began in...The next day we set off by road to the copperbelt in the north-west of the country. Besides...independence, were now returning to farm in the copperbelt area. Despite the fact that the copper...
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ZAMBIA Africa's Copper Giant
Magazine article by Anthony Kunda; African Business, April 2001
Subjects: Copper industry--Analysis, Copper products, Mining industry--Analysis, Zambia
...struggling economy as a whole, and the Copperbelt province in particular. Nearly all...pleased with what is going on in the Copperbelt province. Mines Minister Dr Siyamukayumbu...with the expansion programmes in the Copperbelt province since privatisation." He noted...
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newspaper articles on: Copperbelt  - 3 results

 
 
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Mining Geologist Becomes CBI Branch Chairman
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 10, 2000
Subjects: Aircraft engine industry, Aircraft engines, Rolls-Royce Inc.
...Midlands CBI has chosen a former mining geologist to chair its Staffordshire arm. Mr Colin Brown began his career in the Zambian copperbelt, then returned to the UK to join the National Coal Boards opencast division. For the last 19 years, Mr Brown has lived in...
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Cool Way to Enjoy the Summer; Environment Editor Tony Henderson on a Greenland Summer
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), November 22, 2008
Subjects: Geography, Glaciers
...change and flooding. At the Tuesday event, geography student Claire Williams will also give a talk on her expedition to the Copperbelt province of Zambia and how many local nurses are leaving a declining health care system for greener pastures overseas. We...
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'LUCKY' EARNIE HAS GOT NEW GOAL IN LIFE; HOME AND AWAY: EARNSHAW ON HIS: TR RAVELS, WHILE WALES CONSIDER MOVE: Wales Star Going Back to His Roots to Battle Poverty
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), September 13, 2009
...around pounds 1.50 a day. "I remember parts being in real poverty," he recalled of his time spent in his home village in the copperbelt province, where he spoke three languages - English, Chichewa and the native Zambian tongue of Bemba. "I was lucky not be directly...


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encyclopedia articles on: Copperbelt  - 11 results

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Copperbelt
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COPPERBELT mining region, N central Zambia, central Africa. A natural extension of the mineral-rich region of Katanga , the Copperbelt is one of the richest sources of copper in the world. Cobalt, selenium, silver, and gold are also produced...
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Chingola
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHINGOLA ching-go la, city (1990 pop. 167,954), N central Zambia. It is a copper-mining center, located on the Copperbelt . The city was founded in 1943 to provide services for the adjacent copper-mining center of Nchanga...
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Luanshya
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...lwansh ya, city (1990 pop. 146,275), N central Zambia, near the Congo border. It is a copper-mining center, located on the Copperbelt . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press...
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Mufulira
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...city (1990 pop. 152,944), N central Zambia, on the border with the Congo. It is a copper-mining center, located in the Copperbelt . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press...
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Ndola
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...est. pop. 376,311), N central Zambia, near the Congo. It is a commercial, mining, and manufacturing center, located in the Copperbelt . Copper mining in Ndola long antedates the coming of the Europeans (c.1900). Manufactures include cement, footwear, and soap...
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