Katete

Katete is a medium-sized town in the Eastern Province of Zambia and the headquarters of Katete District. It stands at the foot of rocky hills, including Mpangwe Hill and Kangarema Hill, which rise to 1600 metres, on the Great East Road about 90 kilometres south-west of the provincial capital Chipata, on the watershed between the middle Luangwa River and the Zambezi. A surfaced road, the T6, branches off at the town's junction and runs 50 kilometres to the Mozambique border. In the 1950s Katete was a small government settlement that served a Northern Rhodesia Government technical school for African male students, whose area school ran a mass literacy programme in the Chichewa language, while a mission hospital and an agricultural research station lay to the north and tobacco estates of white settlers surrounded it.