Africa
Zambia is presented here as a historical economic dossier rather than a flat stat sheet: long-run macro cycles, public balance-sheet pressure, market depth, external buffers, and the events that likely bent the curve.
A tighter current-state read before dropping into the long historical charts.
The timeline is where macro numbers meet story: crises, wars, policy shifts, trade deals, and other shocks connected to Zambia.
Cecil Rhodes became Prime Minister of the Cape Colony and consolidated his control of South African diamond and gold mining through De Beers and the British South Africa Company. Rhodes pursued an aggressive expansionist vision that contributed to the Boer War.
Gained sovereignty, ending British colonial rule.
Transition from oneUnknownparty state to multiparty democracy.
The Second Congo War, sometimes called 'Africa's World War,' began as Rwanda and Uganda backed rebels against Laurent Kabila's government, eventually involving nine African nations. The conflict ultimately killed an estimated 5 million people through fighting and famine.