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Article: Zambia: reflections on colonialism and after: Zambia is the forgotten country of Africa. Bono and Madonna don't go there, neither apparently do foreign journalists. This is a pity, because it is an interesting place, one which reveals itself only slowly to those who are perceptive enough to see beauty beyond the obvious and the spectacular.
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- Queen's Quarterly
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- June 22, 2007
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A PART FROM Victoria Falls, Lake Kariba, and the Nyika Plateau, about which Laurens van der Post mystically enthused, there is little to attract the conventional tourist: no snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro, no sun-drenched tropical beaches. There is, in this respect, a resemblance to the Canadian prairies, easily dismissed by the unseeing as "boring." You have to cultivate an eye for nuances, for the changing colours of grasses and soils, for the convoluted shapes of gigantic termite mounds, for the wonderfully gnarled trees of the endless bush, and for the colourful processions of people along every road. Zambia's charm lies precisely in the absence of the things tourists ...