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11/19/2004:

"Africa should reclaim its past"

An average of 550,000 cubic metres of water plummet over the edge every minute. This is the awe-striking sight that gripped Scottish explorer, David Livingstone and his band of attendants when he first made contact with the place in the 1860s. True to form, he claimed discovery of the place, and proceeded to do what all Europeans of his time did - gave it a name. He named it after his queen.

The local people have always known the place as “Mosi oa Thunya” (The smoke that thunders) - a fitting name that, however, Livingstone - and others after him - disregarded.

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