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==History== | ==History== | ||
[[File:David Livingstone memorial at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.jpg|thumb|David Livingstone memorial at [[Victoria Falls]], the first statue on the Zimbabwean side]] | [[File:David Livingstone memorial at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.jpg|thumb|David Livingstone memorial at [[Victoria Falls]], the first statue on the Zimbabwean side]] | ||
The plan came in 2004 after a life-sized bronze statue of Dr David Livingstone which is located in Zimbabwe overlooking at the Victoria Falls for more than half a century. But after years of neglect by its current owners, the Zimbabwean government the Zambia government began to start calling for the statue to be handed over to them. | The plan came in 2004 after a life-sized bronze statue of Dr David Livingstone which is located in Zimbabwe overlooking at the Victoria Falls for more than half a century. But after years of neglect by its current owners, the Zimbabwean government the Zambia government began to start calling for the statue to be handed over to them. The figure of the Victorian explorer, leaning on his walking stick, has stood on the Zimbabwean side of the falls and been seen by hundreds of thousands of visitors each year to one of the seven natural wonders of the world. | ||
The Zambia authorities want to cap their success by making the figure of Africa's most celebrated explorer the center piece of the town of Livingstone, where the tourist trade is booming. | |||
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