Archival Significance
Written by Frank Clements, this 1959 account of the Kariba Dam’s construction addresses both the engineering project itself and the BaTonga resettlement it required, published while the dam, which spans the Rhodesia-Zambia border, was still under construction.
Institutional Context
Published by Methuen and Co, London.
Content Summary
Covers the Kariba Dam’s construction on the Zambezi during the 1950s and the resettlement of BaTonga communities it displaced.
Research Utility
Useful for researchers of the Kariba Dam’s social and engineering history, read alongside AA-WEB-0011’s account of wildlife rescue and AA-WEB-0123’s later anthropological study of the same displaced Gwembe Tonga communities, both held in this Archive.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.