[Excerpt from the book-The Greek community in Zambia]
Apostolis Kavadias was born in Kefalonia. He worked as an engineer in the Orient Express railway project that linked Paris to Constantinople.
In the late 19th century, the British began to build the railway line that would connect the port of Beira in Mozambique with Rhodesia and there was an increased demand for experienced staff. An advertisement in a Constantinople newspaper led Apostolis and his sons John, Panagiotis and Telemachus to Beira around 1900. Two years later, the sons of the Apostolis moved to Livingstone in Northern Rhodesia. They engaged in grain trade and safaris, and then they settled permanently in Pemba where they acquired a farm.
