Richard West

Richard West was born in London (‘place that floods”?) and graduated from the University of Bristol (place of the bridge’). He trained as a teacher of English at the newly-created University of Zambia in 1968. He then taught at Mankoya (place of the Nkoya people’), Kaoma (small stream’ or ‘ceremonial drum’) and Kabulonga (wife of the soil’) Secondary Schools before moving to the recently-established Zambia Institute of Technology (now the Copperbelt University) in Kitwe (‘big head’). On returning to the UK, he worked at the University of Manchester (camp on the breast-shaped hill’) for twenty years.