Timeline of Lusaka
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Lusaka, Zambia.
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20th century
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- 1905
- 1913 - Village Management Board established.[2]
- 1926 - "District administrative headquarters" relocated to Lusaka from Chilanga (approximate date).[1]
- 1935 - Capital of British Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia relocated to Lusaka from Livingstone.[3]
- 1937 - City of Lusaka Football Club formed.
- 1948 - Central African Post begins publication.[4]
- 1951 - Lusaka Playhouse built.[5]
- 1952 - African Listener radio programme begins broadcasting.[6]
- 1954 - F. Payne becomes mayor.
- 1956 - Lusaka African Marketeers' Cooperative Society organized.[7]
- 1958 - Waddington Theatre Club founded.[5]
- 1959 - 20th Century cinema opens (approximate date).[8]
- 1960
- 1963
- National Archives of Zambia headquartered in city.[10]
- International School of Lusaka founded.[11]
- Population: 87,495.[1]
- 1964
- City becomes capital of the newly independent Republic of Zambia.[12]
- Independence Stadium (Zambia) opens.
- 1965 - Rhodes Park School established.
- 1966 - University of Zambia founded.
- 1967 - Mtendele "squatter township" opens.[13]
- 1968
- Zambia Daily Mail newspaper in publication.[14]
- Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, USA.[15]
- 1969 - Zambian News Agency headquartered in city.
- 1970 - "Greater Lusaka created."[3]
- 1971 - Chikwakwa Theatre established at the University of Zambia.[16]
- 1972 - Chunga market built.[9]
- 1976
- Housing Project Unit established.[17]
- United Nations Institute for Namibia inaugurated.
- Libala, Kaunda Square, and Longacres markets established (approximate date).[9]
- 1978 - Racial unrest.[18]
- 1979
- August: City hosts Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1979.[19]
- Zambia Consumer Buying Corporation opens.[9]
- 1985
- Zanaco Football Club formed.
- Non-governmental Organisations' Co-ordinating Committee established.[11]
- 1991 - Weekly Post newspaper begins publication (approximate date).[4]
- 1994
- Lusaka Stock Exchange opens.[11]
- Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa headquartered in Lusaka.[20]
- 1996 - Lusaka National Museum opens.
- 1997
- Umar Al Farook mosque opens.
- Sustainable Lusaka Project launched.[21]
- 1999 - University of Lusaka founded.
21st century
- 2000 - Population: 1,057,212.[22]
- 2001 - Munali Girls High School established.[23]
- 2006 - October: Post-election unrest.[24]
- 2010 - Daniel Chisenga becomes mayor.[25]
- 2012 - February: Celebration of Zambia's winning 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.[26]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Elizabeth Wilson (1963). "Lusaka". Geography. UK: Geographical Association. 48.
- ↑ Emmanuel Mutale (2004), Management of Urban Development in Zambia, Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 9780754635963
- 1 2 "History of Lusaka". Lusaka City Council. Archived from the original on 17 February 2005. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- 1 2 3 "Lusaka (Zambia) Newspapers". WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- 1 2 Dickson Mwansa (1997). "Zambia". In Don Rubin. World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Africa. Routledge. ISBN 0415059313.
- ↑ Jack Howard (1953). "Lusaka Calling". Quarterly of Film Radio and Television. 7.
- ↑ Anthony Oberschall (1972). "Lusaka Market Vendors: Then and Now". Urban Anthropology. 1. JSTOR 40552859.
- 1 2 "The Bioscope". Great North Road. March 2002. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 Earl P. Scott (1985). "Lusaka's Informal Sector in National Economic Development". Journal of Developing Areas. 20. JSTOR 4191418.
- ↑ "About Us". National Archives of Zambia. Archived from the original on 21 January 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- 1 2 3 Karen Fung (ed.). "Zambia". Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources. USA: Stanford University. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- ↑ "Zambia Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- ↑ Karen Tranberg Hansen (1980). "The Urban Informal Sector as a Development Issue: Poor Women and Work in Lusaka, Zambia". Urban Anthropology. 9. JSTOR 40552918.
- ↑ "Zambia: Directory: the Press". Africa South of the Sahara 2004. Regional Surveys of the World. Europa Publications. 2004. p. 1217. ISBN 1857431839.
- ↑ "Sister Cities of Los Angeles". USA: City of Los Angeles. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- ↑ Martin Banham; et al., eds. (1994). "Zambia". Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521411394.
- ↑ Karen Tranberg Hansen (1982). "Lusaka's Squatters: Past and Present". African Studies Review. 25. JSTOR 524213.
- ↑ "Zambians, Outraged By Rhodesian Raids, Attack Whites in City". New York Times. 8 November 1978.
- ↑ Ackson M. Kanduza (2003). "Lusaka". In Dickson Eyoh and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza. Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
- ↑ "Organizations". International Relations and Security Network. Switzerland: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
- ↑ "Lusaka". Sustainable Cities Programme, 1990-2000. UN-HABITAT. 2002.
- ↑ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2011. United Nations Statistics Division. 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- ↑ "About Us". Munali Girls High School. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- ↑ "Riots Spread as Incumbent Widens Lead in Zambia Vote". New York Times. 3 October 2006. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- ↑ "New Lusaka mayor, Chisenga, shares plans for the City". The Post. 9 September 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
- ↑ "After Tragedy, Zambia Triumphs". New York Times. 15 February 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
Further reading
- Published in the 20th century
- J. Collins (1980). "Lusaka: Urban Planning in a British Colony, 1931-64". In G.E. Cherry. Shaping an Urban World. London.
- E. Shamilupa Kalapula (1987). "Electrification of peri-urban areas in Lusaka, Zambia". Geography. UK. 72.
- A.W. Drescher (1996). "Urban microfarming in central Southern Africa: a case study of Lusaka, Zambia". African Urban Quarterly.
- Published in the 21st century
- Drescher; Mackel (2000). "Urban and peri-urban food security: the example of Lusaka (Zambia". Urbanization, vulnerability and resource management in developing countries. Germany.
- "Lusaka". Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003. United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London. 2003.
- Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, ed. (2005). "Lusaka". Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 661+. ISBN 978-0-19-517055-9.
- "Lusaka". African Cities Driving the NEPAD Initiative. UN-HABITAT. 2006.
- Lusaka urban profile, UN-HABITAT, 2007
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