The roughly 200,000 population of Kafue, a Southern town in the province of Lusaka in Zambia, would only fill Leicester City’s King Power and Brighton’s Amex Stadium four times before you would start running out of people. Yet the town’s local club, Kafue Celtic, has produced two of Zambia’s brightest stars.
Before this year, only three Zambians had ever played in the Premier League – Emmanuel Mayuka, Collins Mbesuma and Neil Gregory – and between them they only managed 23 appearances. This summer, however, that number increased by two, thanks to Enock Mwepu and Patson Daka, both products of Kafue Celtic.
Back when the project began almost two decades ago, Lee Kawanu, the club’s founder and director, could have never envisaged what it would become.
In 2002, Kawanu was a…
