Bridging the Zambezi

The Dona Ana Bridge, Tete (Image credit: Gigi Giumbeau)

The latest issue of the Zambezi Traveller looks at the theme of Bridging the Zambezi through a series of linked articles focussing on the various transport crossings over the Zambezi.

When David Livingstone made the Zambezi River and the Victoria Falls known to the wider world through his explorations of the region, he envisaged the Zambezi as 'god's highway' - the route by which Christianity, Commerce and Civilization would reach the dark heart of Africa and banish the scourge of slavery. Whilst the Zambezi dashed his dreams - the Cahora Bassa rapids blocking navigation to the interior - it would be another man, Cecil Rhodes, who would build his own transport link from the southern Cape to the banks of the Zambezi. Whilst Rhodes's vision of a Cape to Cairo railway never materialised, the bridging of the Zambezi at the Victoria Falls remains one of the most significant events in the economic development of the region.

Read about the Bridging of the Zambezi here in this interesting series of articles:
Bridging the Zambezi
Bridge in the mist
The banana bridge
The dam that became a bridge
A tale of two bridges
The arteries of Tete
The bridge of high treason
Swinging high

Read more articles from this issue:
Zambezi Traveller (Issue 14, Sept 2013)