Kapiri Mposhi is a Zambian town and the seat of the Kapiri Mposhi District in Central Province . Located north of Lusaka , it stands on the Great North Road and is significant for the railway connection between the Zambia Railways line from Kitwe to Lusaka and the western terminus ( New Kapiri Mposhi ) of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority from Dar es Salaam since 1976.
42-401: The town lies in the middle of Zambia, next to the boundary with Copperbelt Province . The town is approximately 60 km north of Kabwe and 110 km south of Ndola. It is surrounded by 8 districts , namely, Kabwe District to the south, Chisamba District to the south-east, Luano District on the east, Mkushi District on the north-east, Masaiti District to the north, Mpongwe District to
84-441: A word order that is subject-verb-object . Most of the classification here is taken from that given by Schoeffer, Sheane and Cornwallis. Bemba nouns are divided into several partially-semantic classes. They are indicated by their prefixes and are generally similar but not always identical to the concord prefixes , attached to verbs they govern, adjectives qualifying them, and pronouns standing for them. By one convention, based on
126-737: A crash in global copper prices in 1973. The province adjoins the Haut-Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , which is similarly mineral-rich. The main cities and towns of the Copperbelt are Kitwe , Ndola , Mufulira , Luanshya , Chingola , Kalulushi and Chililabombwe . Roads and rail links extend north into the Congo to Lubumbashi , but the Second Congo War brought economic contact between
168-440: A long 'a', 'ae' and 'ai' change to 'e', and 'ao' and 'au' change to 'o' (in other cases, a 'y' is often used to separate other combinations of vowels). The nasal 'n' changes to 'm' before 'b' or 'p', and is pronounced ŋ before 'k' or 'g'; after 'n', 'l' changes to 'd'. These rules will all be implicit in the tables given below. Like many Bantu languages, Bemba is tonal , with two tones. However, tone has limited effect on meaning as
210-404: A mostly straightforward manner, Bemba being agglutinative and not inflective , but there are still some exceptions. The subject and object prefixes for the personal pronouns are given below. These can vary slightly according to mood, and the subject prefixes change for negative verbs. Where they are different, object prefixes are given in brackets. The subject prefix is placed first, and then
252-532: Is a Bantu language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia by the Bemba people and as a lingua franca by about 18 related ethnic groups. Bemba is one of the spoken languages in Zambia, spoken by many people who live in urban areas, and is one of Zambia's seven recognized regional languages. Zambia's first president, Kenneth Kaunda , though Malawian by descent, was raised in a Bemba-speaking community, and two of
294-542: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Copperbelt Province Copperbelt Province is a province in Zambia which covers the mineral-rich Copperbelt , and farming and bush areas to the south. It was the backbone of the Northern Rhodesian economy during British colonial rule and fuelled the hopes of the immediate post-independence period, but its economic importance was severely damaged by
336-655: Is a 500 million year old mountain chain , the Lufilian Arc , which formed when two large pieces of continental crust , the Kalahari craton and the Congo craton , collided. This collision was one of the many that happened between 700 and 500 million years ago to form the Gondwana supercontinent . This collision is thought to have remobilised base metals , largely already present in the sediments that had accumulated in
378-651: Is correlated with the Sturtian glaciation, while another correlates with the Marinoan Glaciation, both global glaciation events that had profound influence on the history of the planet. The Lufilian Arc is correlated along trend to the west with the Damara Orogen in Namibia , which also hosts large mineral deposits. Copperbelt Province is rich with mineral finds and mines. The name of the province
420-406: Is given by the rich finds of copper ore (e.g. Chingola, Konkola, Nchanga Mines), but notable are also emerald mines along Kafubu River, which in the first 6 months of 2011 yielded 3.74 tons of high quality emeralds. There are no national parks in this most urban and industrial of Zambia's provinces. Other parks with wildlife aspects: As 2004, the province had 856 basic schools, 71 high schools and
462-455: Is headed by an elected representative, called councilor. Each councilor holds office for three years. The administrative staff of the council is selected based on Local Government Service Commission from within or outside the district. The office of the provincial government is located in each of the district headquarters and has provincial local government officers and auditors. Each council is responsible for raising and collecting local taxes and
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#1732783446890504-534: Is spoken by Twa pygmies and sometimes considered a separate language (Nurse 2003). The Twa of Bangweulu speak another dialect of Bemba. The orthographical system in common use, originally introduced by Edward Steere , is quite phonetic. Its letters, with their approximate phonetic values, are given below. It has become increasingly common to use 'c' in place of 'ch'. In common with other Bantu languages, as affixes are added, combinations of vowels may contract and consonants may change. For example, 'aa' changes to
546-559: The MMD took power in 1991, it was accused numerous times of promoting Bemba over other regional languages in the country. Although the lingua franca of the Zambian capital Lusaka is a dialect of Bantu Botatwe. Bemba has several dialects, many being varieties of Bemba spoken by other tribes which have historically fallen under Bemba influence. They include Chishinga , Lomotwa , Ngoma , Nwesi , Lala, Luunda, Mukulu, Ng’umbo, and Unga, which
588-454: The Bantu norms. The simple singular imperative is identical to the 'dictionary' form of the verb consisting of the stem and the suffix '-a', changing to an '-e' if an object prefix is used - there is no subject prefix. The simple plural imperative changes '-a' to '-eni'. Prefixing 'aku-' or 'uka-', adds a sense of instruction to resume or continue an action. An emphatic form can be given by using
630-540: The basin between the two cratons. These brines then concentrated the base metals either along stratigraphic boundaries, or along fractures, faults or within structurally controlled 'traps' (such as the nose of a fold). The collision also produced crustal shortening , during which the stratigraphic sequence was tectonically pushed northwards on top of the Congo Craton. The Lufilian Arc contains two diamictites , megaconglomerates of glacial origin. One of those
672-923: The budgets of the council are audited and submitted every year after the annual budget. The elected members of the council do not draw salaries, but are paid allowances from the council. The Copperbelt province is a predominantly urban district and has three city councils. The government stipulates 63 different functions for the councils with the majority of them being infrastructure management and local administration. Councils are mandated to maintain each of their community centres, zoos, local parks, drainage system, playgrounds, cemeteries, caravan sites, libraries, museums and art galleries. They also work along with specific government departments for helping in agriculture, conservation of natural resources, postal service, establishing and maintaining hospitals, schools and colleges. The councils prepare schemes that encourage community participation. The Copperbelt region of Zambia and Congo D.R.
714-676: The four Zambian presidents since have been Bemba-speakers. The third president, Levy Mwanawasa , was a Lenje /Lamba, Lamba people from the Copperbelt Province and Lenje from central province, Lenjes belong to the Bantu Botatwe (“three people”) ethnic grouping that comprises the Tonga-Lenje-Ila peoples. The Fourth President, Rupiah Bwezani Banda was a Chewa from the Eastern Province. In the years after
756-515: The interest is slowly growing. Some of these include Lutato and Shadreck Kondala, among others. Classic Bemba books include Uwauma Nafyala , Pano Calo and Imilimo ya bena Kale . Abantu bonse bafyalwa abalubuka nokulingana mu mucinshi nensambu. Balikwata amano nokutontonkanya, eico bafwile ukulacita ifintu ku banabo mu mutima wa bwananyina. Translation All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in
798-408: The last consonant is nasal , changing the 'a' to 'ine' or 'ene' accordingly. There are irregularities in several verbs. The tense prefixes are given below. They come after the subject and object prefixes, and before the verb stem, except for the recent, completed or historic past in 'na-', which appears at the very beginning. Stress is marked with an acute (´) accent. The moods correspond closely to
840-607: The national average of 51. Provincial administration is set up purely for administrative purposes. The province is headed by a minister appointed by the President and there are ministries of central government for each province. The administrative head of the province is the Permanent Secretary, appointed by the President. There is a Deputy Permanent Secretary, heads of government departments and civil servants at
882-578: The north-west, Ngabwe District to the west and Chibombo District to the south-west. It is situated at the junction of the T2 road ( Great North Road ; which connects south to Kabwe and Lusaka and north-east to Mpika and Tanzania ) and the T3 road (which connects north to Ndola , Kitwe , Chingola and the Democratic Republic Of Congo ). Kapiri Mposhi has two railways stations,
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#1732783446890924-626: The novels and narratives in Bemba were written between the period 1950 and 1980. Recently, very few creative works are published in Zambia mainly due to two reasons: the readership is generally poor and secondly, because of the first reason, publishers tend to hesitate to publish creative works in Bemba, especially novels of substantial length, for financial reasons due to the likely low levels of readership and thus profit. Instead, there are many short stories and novellas in Bemba literature. Despite these hiccups, such as poor readership and lack of publishing,
966-412: The number of school children out of school in ages between 7 and 15 stood at 856. The unemployment rate was 32 per cent and the general unemployment rate for youth stood at 55 per cent as of 2008. The province had 213 doctors as of 2005. There were 377 Malaria incidence for every 1,000 people in the province as of 2005 and there were 26,799 AIDS death as of 2010. The total area of crops planted during
1008-456: The number of words that would otherwise be confused is small. Stress tends to fall on the prefix, when it exists, and can lead to subtle differences of meaning (see the verb forms below). Many of the main features of Bemba grammar are fairly typical of Bantu languages: it is agglutinative , depends mainly on prefixes , has a system of several noun classes, a large set of verbal aspects and tenses, very few actual adjectives, and, like English, has
1050-406: The object prefix. When the subject or object is a specific noun in a given class, the verbal concord prefix of this class is used, and the negative form adds the prefix 'ta-' before this. The classification given here is that presented by Schoeffer. Some of these require a modified stem, changing final 'a' to 'ile' if the preceding vowel is 'a', 'i' or 'u', and to 'ele' if it is 'e' or 'o', or, if
1092-493: The plural 'makumi', which can be used as a noun with 'na' (and, with) to form all numbers up to 99: for example, makumi yatatu na pabula , 'thirty nine'. 100 is 'mwanda', with plural 'myanda'. The class-independent personal pronouns are: 'ine' (1st person sg.), 'iwe' (2nd person sg.), 'ifwe' (1st person pl.), 'imwe' (2nd person pl.). These are absolute, in the sense that they stand alone, and cannot appear as subjects or objects as they are. There are separate possessive pronouns, and
1134-400: The plural, they are arranged as follows (most alternate forms are caused by phonetic considerations): The prefixes in class 9 essentially indicate case: 'ku-' corresponds to 'to' or 'from', 'mu-' to 'in', 'into', or 'out of', and 'pa-' to 'at'. As is common in Bantu languages, adjectives follow the words they qualify, and take the adjectival concord prefixes, but there are not many of them in
1176-432: The preceding vowel is a, i or u, and '-ek-' if the preceding vowel is e or o. This form is differs in meaning from the passive in that it emphasises the state resulting from an action rather than the action itself (cf. English 'the pot is broken', as opposed to 'the ball is kicked'). Generally, the indicative prefixes 'ta-' to the subject prefix except for the first person singular which changes to 'nshi' or 'shi'. Generally,
1218-435: The province was 2.20%. The median age in the province at the time of marriage was 21.7. The average household size was 5.3, with the families headed by females being 4.8 and 5.5 for families headed by men. The total eligible voters in the province was 66.10%. The unemployment rate of the province was 22.10%. The total fertility rate was 5.0, complete birth rate was 5.8, crude birth rate was 29.0, child women population at birth
1260-415: The provincial level. Copperbelt Province is divided into ten districts , namely, Chililabombwe District , Chingola District , Kalulushi District , Kitwe District , Luanshya District , Lufwanyama District , Masaiti District , Mpongwe District , Mufulira District and Ndola District . All the district headquarters are the same as the district names. There are ten councils in the province, each of which
1302-420: The quality of the works that are published in Bemba is often high. Moreover, there seem to be many talented writers who would like to write in this language but could not because of the reasons that have been given above and others that are related. In terms of literary criticism, a lot of the works in Bemba have not been reviewed and critiqued. This is because there are very few literary critics in Bemba, though
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1344-440: The sex ratio to 1,009 for every 1,000 males, compared to the national average of 1,028. The literacy rate stood at 83.10% against a national average of 70.2%. The rural population constituted 19.11%, while the urban population was 80.89%. The total area of the province was 31,328 km and the population density was 63.00 per km . The population density during 2000 Zambian census stood at 63.00. The decadal population growth of
1386-577: The stem by adding an extra syllable before the final 'a'. These are given below. There are also several compound tenses, many using the copula 'kuli' and 'kuba'. These are used to introduce coordinating or subordinate clauses, similarly to their use in English. There is a sizeable amount of literature in Bemba. There are narratives, poems and plays. Some of the notable writers in Bemba include Stephen Mpashi, Chongo Kasonkomona, Chishimba, Paul Mushindo, Bwalya Chilangwa, Mwila Launshi and Kambole. A lot of
1428-436: The strictest sense. Adverbs, relative clauses, or 'descriptors', often fulfil their function instead. Descriptors are placed after the noun, with the particle '-a', and the relevant pronoun prefix between them: chintu cha nomba , 'new thing'. The numbers from 1 to 10 are: The numerals 1-5 take adjectival concord prefixes (except for class 1 singular: muntu umo, 'one person'). The numerals 6-10 are left unchanged. 'Ikumi' has
1470-399: The subject pronoun prefix (generally of class 1) and following this by the prefix '-inda-'. The subjunctive is used hypothetically, as an indirect imperative, in exhortations, and in subordinate clauses, similarly but not identically to the subjunctive of many European languages. The common feature is a change of the final '-a' of the verb to '-e'. Its forms are given below. Here V stands for
1512-468: The subjunctive adds 'i' after the pronoun prefixes and in most cases changes a final 'e' to 'a'. The infinitive occasionally uses the negative 'te'. However, the precise rules are more complex, and the forms depend more finely on tense, aspect and mood. When the negative is used with the imperfect 'le', it is often in the sense of action not yet done, and is referred to by Schoeffer as a separate 'deferred tense'. There are several other verb forms which change
1554-422: The terminal station of the 1067 mm TAZARA Railway that connects it to Mpika , Kasama and Dar-es-Salaam in the north-east; and an en-route Zambia Railways station that connects it to Lusaka and Livingstone in the south and to Ndola and Kitwe in the north. Janny Sikazwe , association football referee. [REDACTED] Kapiri Mposhi travel guide from Wikivoyage This Zambia location article
1596-621: The third person pronouns depend on class. There are also demonstrative pronouns, divided both by class and into three kinds by deixis ('this one, that one, and that one over there'), and relative pronouns are formed from these. Verbs have simple forms, usually ending in '-a' (everything before the 'a' being the 'stem', 'root' or 'radical'), and are agglutinated according to person, number and class of subject and object, tense, mood, voice, aspect and whether they are affirmative or negative. Further, their stems change to indicate various other shades of meaning. The following rules can all be combined in
1638-413: The two countries to a standstill, now recovering. It is informally referred to at times as 'Copala' or 'Kopala', invoking the vernacular-like term of the mineral copper that is mined in the province. As per the 2010 Zambian census , Copperbelt Province had a population of 1,972,317 accounting to 15.21% of the total Zambian population of 13,092,666. There were 981,887 males and 990,430 females, making
1680-443: The verb stem, and P for any pronoun prefixes. The usual phonological rules apply. The infinitive, strictly a verbal noun, has two forms. The simple form has prefix 'ku-' added to the simple form, as mentioned above, and the habitual infinitive has prefix 'kula-'. The passive is formed by placing the suffix '-w-' before the last vowel of the verb, but it is not frequently used. A 'neutral' voice can be formed by using '-ik-' instead if
1722-576: The year 2014 in the province was 122,525.52 hectares which constituted 6.46% of the total area cultivated in Zambia. The net production stood at 315,153 metric tonnes, which formed 7.74% of the total agricultural production in the country. Maize was the major crop in the province with 37,610 metric tonnes, constituting 17.56% of the national output. Ndola City Council 13°00′S 28°00′E / 13.000°S 28.000°E / -13.000; 28.000 Bemba language Bemba , ChiBemba (also Cibemba, Ichibemba, Icibemba and Chiwemba ),
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1764-468: Was 587, general fertility rate was 112, gross reproduction rate was 1.8 and net reproduction rate was 1.7. The total labour force constituted 50.40% of the total population. Out of the labour force, 63.2% were men and 37.7% women. The annual growth rate of labour force was 2.7%. Bemba was the most spoken language with 83.90% speaking it. The total population in the province with albinism stood at 2,912. The life expectancy at birth stood at 54 compared to
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