Livingstone

Livingstone was, until 2012, the capital of the Southern Province of Zambia. Lying 10 km to the north of the Zambezi River, it is a tourism centre for the Victoria Falls and a border town with road and rail connections to Zimbabwe on the other side of the Victoria Falls. A historical British colonial town, its gift populace became expected at 136,897 population at the 2010 census. It is called after David Livingstone, the British explorer and missionary who become the first European to discover the region.

Mukuni 9.6 km to the south-east of gift-day Livingstone, become the biggest village within the vicinity earlier than Livingstone changed into founded. Its Baleya inhabitants, initially from the Rozwi lifestyle in Zimbabwe, have been conquered by means of Chief Mukuni who came from the Congo inside the 18th century. Another institution of Baleya underneath Chief Sekute lived close to the river west of the town. The maximum numerous human beings within the region, even though, have been the Batoka underneath Chief Musokotwane primarily based at Senkobo, 30 km 19 mi north.

These are southern Tonga human beings but are culturally and linguistically much like the Baleya and grouped with them because the 'Tokaleya'. The Tokaleya paid tribute to the Lozi of Barotseland however in 1838 the Kololo, a Sotho tribe from South Africa displaced with the aid of Zulu wars, migrated north and conquered the Lozi. The Kololo positioned chiefs of their subordinate Subiya humans of Sesheke over the Tokaleya.