Chiku_Travel_Photography

04/07/2025

Finally sunset shots on the mighty Zambezi River. I must say it was wonderful! The views are to die for!

30/12/2023

Lake Kariba is the world's largest artificial lake and reservoir by volume. It lies 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) upstream from the Indian Ocean, along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Lake Kariba was filled between 1958 and 1963 following the completion of the Kariba Dam at its northeastern end, flooding the Kariba Gorge on the Zambezi River.

With such a grand history of its making, It’s quite an experience having to take sunset shots on this great art of human engineering.

13/05/2022

01/03/2021

Missions in Zambia - II

Niamkolo Church – Mpulungu

THIS DEFUNCT CHURCH ON THE shores of Lake Tanganyika may no longer be active, but it remains a potent historical marker of how British colonialism changed Zambia forever.

Missionaries first came to the region in the 1880s. The expansion of European empires heightened interest in mission societies, who saw opportunity in newly colonized territories and their native peoples. Inspired by the travels and writings of missionary explorer David Livingstone, several different missionary societies moved to establish missions in the central African regions he explored. The London Missionary Society, with which Livingstone first began his travels, was the first of these organizations to establish a mission in what would become Zambia.

The mission’s lakeside location positioned it to readily welcome travelers arriving by boat, causing it to flourish. It did so well that between 1895 and 1896, the mission upgraded to a large stone church overlooking the lake.

The church served as a place of worship continuously until 1908, when the mission moved inland to avoid the sleeping sickness carried by tsetse flies near the lake. The original church has been declared a national monument in Zambia. It’s the oldest surviving stone church in the country. Though its walls still stand, the roof is no more.

Source: ATLAS OBSCURA

Notice the unusual construction technology which wall almost 700mm thick. The siting of buildings in the construction methods of the time focused on constructing on firm ground hence no need for a foundation.

When you stand on the site for the Niamkolo Church,as I did, you will get the sense of needing to be in sight of vessels approaching the land. It is a defensive mechanisms which is a common character of cities - or settlements if you like - that are located along the trade routes. They had military establishments pitched at an elevated position to have a clear sight of the front. It is some form of a Vantage Point.

23/02/2021

Missions in Zambia - A first in the Series

Mambwe Mission at Senga Hill

According to the Archives of the Missionaries of Africa, extract from Fr Mazé’s History Notes, the start of Mabwe Mission traces as far back as 1892 where it is recorded that in August of the this year, a group of Missionaries believed to be among the white fathers that passed through Mwenzo in Nakonde, arrived in the country of WaMambwe and decided to set up at Uwamambwe.

According to the records, the decision to establish the mission Mambwe made the Chief Mwene Mambwe very happy as the presence of white missionaries in his country would keep the Bembas at bay from the raids. They felt protected. The Missionaries The time did not know the chief’s motive to have them there until later in the years. You can read more on the establishment of the mission on this link https://fenza.org/docs/archive/Fr_J_Mazes_Historical_notes.htm

23/02/2021

Perfect geometry

27/01/2021

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10/12/2020

The mighty Victoria Fall...quite a view...you will never get enough of it. By April next year it will be all white. Around this time is when you can get a perfect blue sky view..nothing short of amazing..

31/10/2020

White-backed Vulture

28/10/2020

The Kafue river

06/10/2020

Sunset at Chishimba falls

19/08/2020

Color