Kafue

[ kuh-foo-ey, kah- ]

noun

a river in S central Africa, flowing SE along the Zaire-Zambia border and then SW and E through Zambia to the Zambezi River above Kariba Lake. About 600 miles (965 km) long.

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Though it has a bounty of biodiversity, like many protected areas in Africa, Kafue is far from realizing its full potential.
Photos: Africa’s nature parks are in the midst of a pandemic-induced conservation crisis | Peter Chadwick (photos) | January 9, 2021 | Quartz
The special object of their trip was to look at a location north of the Kafue River, where a missionary had died not long before.
South and South Central Africa | H. Frances Davidson
Near this place the brethren crossed the broad Kafue River and proceeded in a northwesternly direction toward the railroad.
South and South Central Africa | H. Frances Davidson
On the north we have mountains appearing above the horizon, which are said to be on the banks of the Kafue.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa | David Livingstone
The plain below us, at the left of the Kafue, had more large game on it than any where else I had seen in Africa.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa | David Livingstone

His village is situated at the bottom of ranges through which the Kafue finds a passage, and close to the bank of that river.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa | David Livingstone

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