Women's clothing in Zambia is influenced by ethnicity, tribe, religion, and social status. Traditional Zambian music is based on percussion and drums accompanied by singing and dancing. In urban areas, foreign genres like soukous, reggae, and American music are popular. In the 1970s, local psychedelic rock artists created a genre called Zamrock, including bands like The Witch, The Peace, and Amanaz & Chrissy Zebby Tembo. While English is the official language, over 70 African languages are also spoken in Zambia such as Bemba, Lozi, Luvale, Tonga, and Nyanja.
Women's clothing in Zambia is influenced by ethnicity, tribe, religion, and social status. Traditional Zambian music is based on percussion and drums accompanied by singing and dancing. In urban areas, foreign genres like soukous, reggae, and American music are popular. In the 1970s, local psychedelic rock artists created a genre called Zamrock, including bands like The Witch, The Peace, and Amanaz & Chrissy Zebby Tembo. While English is the official language, over 70 African languages are also spoken in Zambia such as Bemba, Lozi, Luvale, Tonga, and Nyanja.
Women's clothing in Zambia is influenced by ethnicity, tribe, religion, and social status. Traditional Zambian music is based on percussion and drums accompanied by singing and dancing. In urban areas, foreign genres like soukous, reggae, and American music are popular. In the 1970s, local psychedelic rock artists created a genre called Zamrock, including bands like The Witch, The Peace, and Amanaz & Chrissy Zebby Tembo. While English is the official language, over 70 African languages are also spoken in Zambia such as Bemba, Lozi, Luvale, Tonga, and Nyanja.
In Zambia, Women's clothing is influenced by several factors: ethnicity, tribe of origin,
religion and social status. In the next image is the high society, the middle is the people of the town and the other is the typical dance costume:
MUSIC:
Most of Zambia's traditional music is based on percussion,
mainly with drums accompanied by a lot of cante and dances. In urban areas, foreign musical genres such as the Congolese Soukous, Jamaican reggae and Afro-American music are heard continuously. In the decade of the 1970s, local psychedelic rock artists appeared, creating a genre known as Zamrock, some of the best known groups are: The Witch, The Peace or Amanaz & Chrissy Zebby Tembo.
IDIOMS:
The official language of Zambia is English, but more than 70 African languages are also spoken, such as Bemba, Lozi, Luvale, Tonga and Nyanja among others.