Qualla: Kitwe https://qualla.com/kitwe en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Kitwe https://qualla.com/kitwe Kitwe: Introduction https://qualla.com/kitwe/ If you wanted a short list of what came out of Kitwe, you could start like this: copper, cobalt, emeralds, two presidents of Zambia, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Denise Scott Brown, a sister-city relationship with Detroit, and some of the best-trained football goalkeepers in southern Africa. The city of more than 700,000 people sits on the Zambian Copperbelt, roughly ten kilometers from the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was founded in 1936 as an afterthought, a service settlement next to a real mining centre called Nkana. Ninety years later Nkana is a suburb and Kitwe runs the province.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/s/p/kitwe-wp/ktsp-kitwe-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kitwe: The Railway and the Price of Copper https://qualla.com/kitwe/ Kitwe's early years were shaped by two men who never lived there: Cecil Rhodes, whose company laid the railway north from what is now Zimbabwe, and whoever was setting the price of copper on the London Metal Exchange each year. The Rhodesia Railways main line reached town in 1937...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/s/p/kitwe-wp/ktsp-kitwe-the-railway-and-the-price-of-copper.mp3 0:06 2 full Kitwe: Mines That Went Under https://qualla.com/kitwe/ The Nkana Cobalt Plant sits a single kilometer southwest of Kitwe's city centre and is one of Africa's largest mines by any reasonable measure. Its shafts extend below 1,300 meters, making Nkana the deepest mine on the Copperbelt. Ore comes from four underground workings (Mindola...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/s/p/kitwe-wp/ktsp-kitwe-mines-that-went-under.mp3 0:06 3 full Kitwe: Schools That Build Miners and Olympians https://qualla.com/kitwe/ For a city known primarily for extraction, Kitwe has an unusually dense network of schools that send their graduates somewhere else. Mpelembe Secondary School accepts around 150 students a year out of thousands of applicants; former Mpelembe students end up at Manchester, Birming...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/t/s/p/kitwe-wp/ktsp-kitwe-schools-that-build-miners-and-olympians.mp3 0:06 4 full Kitwe: The People Who Came From Here https://qualla.com/kitwe/ Denise Scott Brown was born in Zambia and grew up in Kitwe before moving to South Africa and then Philadelphia, where she became half of the partnership with Robert Venturi that changed twentieth-century architecture. Jane Ohlmeyer, the Irish historian of early modern Britain and...

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