History Of Zambia Research Articles

Space Nostalgia in The Old Drift: Memorializing Matha Mwamba, the Afronaut

In the two former Cold War superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, memorializations of the space race serve as sites of nostalgia, fueling feelings of national pride. This paper investigates this in a Zambian context by analyzing how the history of Zambia’s participation in the space race is fictionalized in Namwali Serpell's novel The Old Drift. The novel creates a fictionalized account of the childhood and adolescence of Zambia's first female Afronaut, Matha Mwamba, filling the silence in the archives regarding the life of this marginalized historical figure. Significantly, Serpell uses the form of the Bildungsroman when reimaging Matha's private history, framing Zambia's period of transition from British colony to independent nation state as one of upheaval and transformation. In mourning the lost future of Zambia's failed space program, the narrative engages in reflective nostalgia as defined by Svetlana Boym. Any narratives of progress are merged with tales of personal hardship. A critically nostalgic approach allows Serpell to illustrate how past visions of the future can serve as inspirations for the present.

China and Zambia: creating a sovereign debt crisis

Abstract Does Zambia's exceptionally high level of Chinese loan commitments provide insights into China's financial statecraft? Some have argued that Chinese lending to Zambia reflects China's purposeful use of loans to build leverage and perhaps acquire strategic assets. This article uses new data on Chinese loans, lenders and contractors and process-tracing to argue instead that Zambia is an extreme case of coordination problems in Chinese lending. Among all African countries with Chinese loans, Zambia has had the largest number of distinct Chinese lenders since 2000 (18) and the second largest number of different Chinese contractors winning Chinese loan-financed projects (29). This multiplication of stakeholders has created fierce and unregulated competition for infrastructure contracts in Zambia. In Beijing, ‘fragmented authoritarianism’ has meant an absence of top-down coordination of firms' and lenders' activities and thus few restraints. At the same time, Zambia's political leaders disregarded their own restraints on over-borrowing. Distinctive Chinese ideas about debt sustainability likely created additional disincentives for close Chinese monitoring. Finally, Zambia's history of frequent debt cancellations from China and other lenders likely exacerbated moral hazard risks.

Land resistance in Zambia: a case study of the Luana Farmers' Cooperative

This article focuses on local struggles and new social practices in Zambia, a country rarely discussed when investigating sites of resistance in the region. It reviews the economic history of Zambia, highlighting the centrality of mining to the country's political economy and the effects of the privatisation of Zambia's copper mines, one central part of the broader liberalisation programme undertaken in the 1990s, on former miners and mining communities. Spontaneous opposition to resettlement of local communities, as required by new private mine and landowners, led resistance to take on a more organised form, notably in the formation of the Luana Farmers' Cooperative. The cooperative met with some success under very challenging economic and political conditions, which may fall far short of a fundamental repudiation of neoliberal restructuring, but nonetheless strengthened the survival capacities and political clout of some of those most harshly affected by it.

From Kings Cross to Kew: Following the History of Zambia's Indian Community through British Imperial Archives

In the summer months of 2005 I traveled to London for the purpose of carrying out archival research in the Oriental and India Office Collection (OIOC) of the British Library at Kings Cross. My aim was to document the history of Indian immigration to the former British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia), about which very little has been published. The OIOC contains a vast amount of material relating to Asia and Africa—reportedly some 14 kilometers of shelving—including the India Office Records (IOR) and its key manuscripts detailing Indians' migration to British Central Africa.Indians' arrival into Northern Rhodesian territory can be traced in these archives to 1905, and I was interested in the period from then until the independence of the country in 1964. The information held in the IOR is partic ularly rich: because the India Office acted as an intermediary among the Colonial Office in London, the Governor's Office in Northern Rhodesia, and the Government of India in New Delhi, the records bring together and represent the concerns of all the official actors. However, when India achieved sovereignty in 1947 the doors of the India Office closed and matters relating to the Indian diaspora were transferred to the Commonwealth Relations Office and the Dominion and Colonial Offices, whose interests were empire-wide. These sets of files are presently held in the National Archives at Kew.

A Brief History of Kafue National Park, Zambia.

This paper presents the first documentation of the history of Zambia's oldest and largest national park: Kafue National Park. The movement of people out of the park is systematically presented. Furthermore, access and resource use and exploitation rights granted to people who lived inside the park are summarised. The paper looks at park administration, wildlife management, tourism and briefly presents areas for future studies.

A History of Zambia

A History of Zambia

A History of Zambia

A History of Zambia

A History of Zambia

A History of Zambia

A History of Zambia

A History of Zambia

A History of Zambia

A History of Zambia

The Zambian Past - A History of Zambia. By Andrew Roberts. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1976. Pp. xv+288. 8 plates, 10 maps. £7 (£2.90 paperback).

The Zambian Past - A History of Zambia. By Andrew Roberts. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1976. Pp. xv+288. 8 plates, 10 maps. £7 (£2.90 paperback).

Jehovah's Witnesses in Kenya

The Watchtower movement, as Jehovah's Witnesses were originally known--figures largely in the twentieth century history of Zambia, Malawi, and Rhodesia, partly because of the activities of break-away and imitative movements which disseminated highly-coloured versions of official Watchtower teaching, 1) and partly because of more recent conflicts between the newly independent states and official Watchtower adherents (known, since 1931, as Jehovah's witnesses). 2) In

The Elites of Barotseland 1878–1969: a political history of Zambia's western province

The Elites of Barotseland 1878–1969: a political history of Zambia's western province

The Elites of Barotseland 1878-1969. A Political History of Zambia's Western Province

The Elites of Barotseland 1878-1969. A Political History of Zambia's Western Province

Colonialism in Africa, 1870-1960. L. H. Gann , Peter DuignanThe Elites of Barotseland, 1878-1969: A Political History of Zambia's Western Province. Gerald L. Caplan

Colonialism in Africa, 1870-1960. L. H. Gann , Peter DuignanThe Elites of Barotseland, 1878-1969: A Political History of Zambia's Western Province. Gerald L. Caplan

: A Short History of Zambia (From the Earliest Times until A. D. 1900) . Brian M. Fagan.

: A Short History of Zambia (From the Earliest Times until A. D. 1900) . Brian M. Fagan.

A Short History of Zambia (From the Earliest Times until A.D. 1900). Edited by Brina M. Fagan. Nairobi: Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 164, maps, charts, illustrations. 20s.

A Short History of Zambia (From the Earliest Times until A.D. 1900). Edited by Brina M. Fagan. Nairobi: Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 164, maps, charts, illustrations. 20<i>s</i>.