Friday, 6 September 2013
Ministry of Agriculture and LIvestock building, Choma, Zambia
Despite the Polaroid camera being sufficiently developed to take positive colour photographs in 1964, the world’s press recorded Kenneth Kaunda taking Zambia to independence in October that year in black and white. Although this is where the Zambian colonial project ended for Britian, it is where the globalisation project started, a positive feature of a changing world for some, the domination of the Third World by the First World for others (Ashcroft, 101). ~ Peter Langmead in Postcards from Zambia
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