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500 Kwacha Dr. David Livingstone

Issuer Bank of Zambia
Year 1999
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Composition Gold (.9999)
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Obverse script Latin
Obverse lettering BANK OF ZAMBIA 19 99 500 KWACHA
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Livingstone died in 1873 in Chief Chitambo's village in what is now Zambia, his heart literally buried there by his companions before his body was carried to the coast. Zambia's repeated use of his image on commemorative issues reflects a deliberate postcolonial choice — reclaiming a colonial-era figure as part of national heritage rather than rejecting him, given that Livingstone's published accounts were instrumental in the campaign to abolish the East African slave trade.

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