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[[File:Shiwa Ngandu.jpg|thumb|The house at Shiwa Ngandu, built by Sir Stewart Gore-Browne]]'''Shiwa Ngandu''' (also spelled '''Shiwa Ng'andu''') is a grand English-style country house and estate in the [[Muchinga Province]] of Zambia, previously the [[Northern Province, Zambia|Northern Province]], about {{convert|12|km}} west of the [[TAZARA Railway]] and half-way between [[Mpika]] and [[Chinsali]]. Its name is based on a small lake nearby, [[Lake Ishiba Ng'andu]] which in the [[Bemba language]] means 'lake of the royal crocodile'. The house itself is also known as '''"Shiwa House"'''. It was the lifelong project of an English aristocrat, Sir [[Stewart Gore-Browne]] who fell in love with the country after working on the [[Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission]] determining the border between Rhodesia and the [[Democratic Republic of Congo]].<ref name="Rotberg1977">{{cite book|last=Rotberg|first=Robert I. |authorlink=Robert I. Rotberg|title=Black Heart: Gore-Browne and the Politics of Multiracial Zambia|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=vz795O-AuowC&pg=PA97|year=1977|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-03164-7|pages=97–}}</ref> | [[File:Shiwa Ngandu.jpg|thumb|The house at Shiwa Ngandu, built by Sir Stewart Gore-Browne]]'''Shiwa Ngandu''' (also spelled '''Shiwa Ng'andu''') is a grand English-style country house and estate in the [[Muchinga Province]] of Zambia, previously the [[Northern Province, Zambia|Northern Province]], about {{convert|12|km}} west of the [[TAZARA Railway]] and half-way between [[Mpika]] and [[Chinsali]]. Its name is based on a small lake nearby, [[Lake Ishiba Ng'andu]] which in the [[Bemba language]] means 'lake of the royal crocodile'. The house itself is also known as '''"Shiwa House"'''. It was the lifelong project of an English aristocrat, Sir [[Stewart Gore-Browne]] who fell in love with the country after working on the [[Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission]] determining the border between Rhodesia and the [[Democratic Republic of Congo]].<ref name="Rotberg1977">{{cite book|last=Rotberg|first=Robert I. |authorlink=Robert I. Rotberg|title=Black Heart: Gore-Browne and the Politics of Multiracial Zambia|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=vz795O-AuowC&pg=PA97|year=1977|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-03164-7|pages=97–}}</ref> | ||
