The people of Chiawa Chiefdom, home to the Goba-speaking Kore-Kore people of the Kafue District, say they are often mistreated by immigration officers who mistake them for Zimbabweans because of their surnames and border dialect. They complain that each time they travel outside the chiefdom, particularly toward Lusaka, they are frequently stopped at immigration checkpoints, removed from buses, and even arrested on suspicion of being foreigners. In most cases, they say, it takes the direct intervention of Chieftainess Chiawa to secure their release. The Goba people live along the Zambezi River within the Lower Zambezi Game Management Area, on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Their dialect closely resembles Shona, and their surnames reflect ancestral links to Zimbabwe that date...




