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May 2004 in Mwandi, Zambia: in this small border town on the banks of the Zambezi, the ground is trembling under the road-building machines of the South African and German construction company, CONCOR. The fresh black tarmac band they are creating is three kilometres long and has been paid for by the government of Zambia. It starts at the turn-off from the newly completed Livingstone-Sesheke highway, a 205-kilometer long section of a new major transport artery in southern Africa. This “Southern African Development Community transport corridor” now connects the Copper Belt of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the Namibian seaport of Walvis Bay. From the turn-off, the feeder road into Mwandi runs past newly built shops owned by various private entrepreneurs and ends on the doorstep of Mwandi’s most important man, Senior Chief Inyambo Yeta of the Barotse Royal Establishment (BRE).
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Zeller, W. (2007). “Now we are a Town”: Chiefs, Investors, and the State in Zambia’s Western Province. In: Buur, L., Kyed, H.M. (eds) State Recognition and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa. Palgrave Studies in Governance, Security, and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230609716_9
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