Zambia: Chaos of an 'African' Market

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A SIGNIFICANT number of diseases currently ravaging Africa, including Zambia, and which are easily managed or do not even exist in other countries may probably be a consequence of the type of the built environment most African nations have decided to live in.

The Oxford dictionary defines a "market" as "a space or building for the sale of goods or livestock." However, an African market is that place where you buy or sell such delicacies as dry 'Luangwa' or 'Mongu' fish, caterpillars or ifinkubala, tubers for preparing chikanda as well as village chickens, this is how the colonialists differentiated these types of markets from the so-called shopping malls and each was allowed a space in the town plan layout for each town or city close to the African designated residential areas.

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