Kalomo

Kalomo is a town in southern Zambia, about 125 kilometres north-east of Livingstone on the main T1 road and the railway line to Lusaka. It is the capital of Kalomo District and a home of the Batonga people. The town holds a place in colonial history because it was the first administrative centre of Northern Rhodesia, in particular of North-Western Rhodesia, and it kept that role until the capital was established at Livingstone in 1907. The Administrator's House from that period still survives. Near the town lies Kalundu Mound, the site of a village that was occupied from at least the ninth century until the twelfth century, which gives the area a long archaeological record. Kalomo is also home to the Namwianga Mission.