Ndola

What is now Ndola was first inhabited by the Lamba people led by Senior Chief Chiwala, the Lamba people migrated from the Luba-Lunda kingdom around 1600 and the town of Ndola was under Chief Mushili for some time but now it is under Chief Chiwala who came to the Lambaland during the slave trade from Malawi. The name Ndola is derived from the river, which originates in the Kaloko Hills and drains in the Kafubu River. The town of Ndola was founded in 1904 by John Edward "Chiripula" Stephenson. It was started as a boma and trading post, which laid its foundations as an administrative and trading centre today. The Rhodesia Railways main line reached the town in 1907, providing passenger services as far south as Bulawayo, with connections to Cape Town. …

Ndola has a moderate humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cwa).

The Copperbelt Museum, with a collection of gems and minerals from the Copperbelt. Small reservoirs formed by dams on the Kafubu and Itawa streams flowing through the south-east of the city are used for boating and recreation. The thermal power station which dominates the skyline near the railway station, built to power the mines and refineries, ceased operation in the 1960s when the Kariba Dam power station came on line. The Slave Tree or Mukuyu Slave Tree around which Arab slave traders held slave markets in the nineteenth century (a mukuyu tree is a kind of fig tree). It has fallen due to "termites". Dag Hammarskjöld Memorial ten kilometres west of the city centre, off the Ndola/Kitwe road, commemorates the site where the then United Nations Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash on September 18, 1961 during the Congo Crisis. …