African teams break through at Women’s World Cup
by Ryan Lenora Brown
Aug 08, 2023
3 minutes
In Lusaka, the giant chicken is iconic.
As cars spin around a major traffic circle in Zambia’s capital, they are greeted by a towering statue of a white rooster perched in its grassy center, advertising a local poultry company. So beloved is the chicken that when a Lusaka mayor announced a few years ago that it would be torn down, Zambians put up enough of a fight that he eventually backed off.
So it was a striking sign of the times last month to see the famous chicken painted wearing the
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