Zambia’s Stary Mwaba mines the toxic legacy of the Copperbelt’s ‘black mountains’

Zambia’s notorious “black mountains” – huge heaps of mining waste that scar the Copperbelt skyline – are deeply personal to Stary Mwaba, one of the country’s leading visual artists.

“As kids, we used to call it ‘mu danger’ – meaning ‘in…