Cairo Road

Cairo Road is the main thoroughfare of Lusaka, Zambia and the principal business, retail and services centre of the city. It was a section of the Great North Road and was so named because it was a link Cecil Rhodes' dream of a Cape to Cairo Road through British colonies in Africa.

Cairo Road is 1.8 km long, running north-south between the Great East Road and Independence Avenue, and is a wide dual carriageway with an avenue of trees down the centre. It runs parallel to the main railway line which is one block to the east. As the main north-south road it used to be very congested, but this has been alleviated by the expansion of Lumumba Road to the west as a by-pass which takes through traffic. Although in recent times has become very congested, as has the whole of Lusaka because of the lack of any major ring roads and the large influx of people to the city.