Tears of Rain: Ethnicity and History in Central Western Zambia

Abstract

Part 1 Tears of rain - ethnicity and history in central Western Zambia: 1. The contemporary point of departure: The Nkoya-speaking people and their chiefs - 1.1 The Nkoya 1.2. Nkoya subgroups and the recent process of their ethnic convergence the proliferation for the study of history 1.3. The major Nkoya chiefs and their political environment today the distant Lunda association chiefs, royal kin and headmen: the internal structure of the neo-traditional Nkoya polities the indigenous Barotose administration and the colonial state. the post-colonial state Mutando and Kahre: moiety-like structure and the struggle for seniority 2. The Likota Iya Bankoya manuscript - 2.1 History of the Likota Iya Bankoya manuscript 2.2 Likota Iya Bankoya as belonging to a genre of historiographic production characteristics of the genre and methodological implications. (Part Contents).