Feira was probably the first European settlement in Zambia,
but the dates are not well documented. What is documented is that the
Portuguese first settled on the opposite bank of the Luangwa at Zumbo in
Mozambique around 1720, in order to trade with the Bwila people, and by 1820
some had settled in Feira. The town was abandoned again by 1856, when it was
visited by the explorer David Livingstone and described as completely ruined.
It was resettled in 1887 by John Harrison Clark, who lived there until 1895.
After Zambia achieved independence the name of the town was
