Figure 7.2 1964 ‘locality plan’ showing Mpatamatu’s newly constructed Sections 21, 22, 23 and 24 as part of Luanshya’s corporate mine townships
Description: Colonial and Corporate Control over Bodies
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7 Of Corporate Welfare Buildings and Private Initiative: Post-Paternalist Ruination and Renovation in a Former Zambian Mine Township: Colonial and Corporate Control over Bodies
Across the Copperbelt
Mpatamatu was initiated by the Roan Antelope Copper Mines (RACM) as a second mine township for African workers and their dependants in 1958. The name ‘Mpatamatu’ is from Lamba, one of the many Bantu languages spoken in Zambia: m- signifies a location, -pata means ‘to...
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Miles Larmer and Enid Guene and Benoît Henriet
PublisherJames Currey
Word count3,426
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