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[edit] Moved here: Kitwe's Name

I don't believe this story, so I moved it here:

"There is a story that, in a zoo in Kitwe, there was a lion called Kitwe, the Bemba word for 'head'. The town was thereafter christened Kitwe. The Kitwe lion has been stuffed can be found In the entrance of Kitwe's the mayoral palace."

The Bemba word for head is "mutwe". Kitwe is a name not a regular word, the town has been called Kitwe ever since the Copperbelt sprang up. In the story above, when it became a big enough town to have a zoo, what was it called then? There has never been a zoo there. Also what's the Kitwe "mayoral palace"? The town hall? Whoever put this in the article please provide evidence. Rexparry sydney 11:52, 8 November 2007 (UTC)