The Kariba Dam.

Faces: People, Places, and Cultures | December 1, 2003| | Copyright

When the Kariba Dam was completed in 1960, it was the largest man-made dam ever built. Lake Kariba, created by damming the Zambezi River and flooding the land behind the dam, was 180 mile long and up to 24 miles long.

Before the project could start fifty thousand Batonga people and their villages would have to be uprooted and relocated. The Batonga had lived in the area for centuries. When they learned that they must leave their lands because the area would soon be under water, they asked Nyaminyami, the powerful river god, to help them.

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