The Copper Queen
Chipo Banda
The Copper Queen
Chipo BandaK250
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About this book
On the Copperbelt in 1964, a mine clerk's daughter becomes the unlikely broker between striking miners and a company that will not name her. A novel about independence and the price of the metal that paid for it.
Sample
They called her the Copper Queen because it was easier than saying she owned the men who owned the mine. Ndakala had come to the Copperbelt in 1931 to sell beer to shift workers and by 1938 she held paper on four trading stores, one lorry, and the silence of a district officer. The company knew her name. The company also knew that when the pumps failed, it was her lorry that reached the shaft first. "You are not a businesswoman," the officer said once, meaning it as instruc…
The author
Chipo Banda is a Zambian novelist and former mining engineer. She writes about extraction — of minerals, of labour, of love.
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 420
- Published
- 2020
- Chapters available
- 1