 Plans for redevelopment were announced by President Edgar Lungu in 2019.Misisi was established in the mid 1960s as a shanty town or komboni located beside the Kafue Road, three kilometres south of the central business district of Lusaka, Zambia.The name Misisi came from the Nyanja word for "Mrs" which referred to Mrs Edwards, the owner of the farmland which was originally squatted.