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Tokyo, October 1964. The athletes of Northern Rhodesia, a British colony in southern Africa, march into the opening ceremony under that name.
While the Games are running, back home the colony becomes independent. On 24 October 1964, the day of the closing ceremony, it is renamed Zambia.
So the same team walked into the stadium at the end of the Olympics under a new name and a new flag. Zambia is remembered as the only nation to enter an Olympic Games as one country and leave as another.
At home in Lusaka, Kenneth Kaunda was sworn in as the first president that same day.
The photo shows Lusaka today, a city that grew from a small colonial town into a capital of more than three million people.
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Photo: Icem4k, 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Sources: Olympedia; IOC Tokyo 1964 archive.
#history #zambia #olympics #forgottenhistory
While the Games are running, back home the colony becomes independent. On 24 October 1964, the day of the closing ceremony, it is renamed Zambia.
So the same team walked into the stadium at the end of the Olympics under a new name and a new flag. Zambia is remembered as the only nation to enter an Olympic Games as one country and leave as another.
At home in Lusaka, Kenneth Kaunda was sworn in as the first president that same day.
The photo shows Lusaka today, a city that grew from a small colonial town into a capital of more than three million people.
Did you know this one?
Photo: Icem4k, 2022, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Sources: Olympedia; IOC Tokyo 1964 archive.
#history #zambia #olympics #forgottenhistory
