| Title | Zambia: chief macha’s toilet revolution |
| Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
| Year of Publication | 2008 |
| Authors | York, USUNICEF-N |
| Secondary Title | Sanitation and hygiene case study |
| Volume | 6 |
| Pagination | 4 p.; ill.; 3 photographs |
| Date Published | 2008-01-01 |
| Keywords | access to sanitation, case studies, hygiene, open defecation, pit latrines, rapid rural appraisals, rural areas, rural communities, rural supply systems, zambia |
| Abstract | The Tonga people of southern Zambia are used to disruptions in their way of life. In the colonial era, European farmers settled on Tonga lands when the main road and railway line were built through their territory from what is now Zimbabwe to the capital, Lusaka, and many people changed their lifestyle and went to work for them. Eighty-year-old Chief Mapanza of Choma remembers those days and the way the Europeans imposed their ideas, even in intimate domestic matters: ‘The settlers forced the villagers to dig pit latrines and instructed messengers to inspect the villages. Those that did not have pit latrines were severely punished.’ [authors abstract] |
| Custom 1 | 303, 203.0 |
