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This is a branch of the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe. I took it in the 1986 during the 8th NAM Summit in Harare which I covered as a journalist. TRhe photo was a picture taken by a Canon AE1 Programme camera. It is now scanned and adjusted for sharing.
The Zambezi or “great river” is named in the language of the Batonka tribe which migrated from Lake Malawi to the Zambezi Valley during the sixteenth or seventeenth century. This river of many faces is 2,700 kilometres long, it has its beginning in central Africa from where it flows for 1,300 kilometres across the Zambian plateau, over the Victoria Falls, onto Kariba where a dam has formed the famous lake and into the Mocambican flood plains before finally emptying into the Indian Ocean. To the Mocambicans it is the “river of great floods.”