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This dissertation is the result of research undertaken in Ikumbi IRDP project area of Isoka district from September, 1982 to February 1983. Tne study sought to analyse Zambia's rural development policy in general and to evaluate and analyse the results of this, especially in terms of the spatial...

Generally, Zambian government schools and colleges have recorded low female participation in Science and Mathematics since political independence in 1964. The situation is worse in the subject of art and design. In many schools this subject is not offered. Additionally, many people in the Zambian...

hi Zambia, there has been unequal participation and access of girls and boys to schooling because of various reasons one of them being a policy, which required girls who got pregnant to leave school. The policy and practice of expulsion of pregnant school girls was changed in 1997. A policy that...

This study is an historical enquiry into the changing roles of women in the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church in Monze District of Southern Zambia from 1905 - 1998. We argue that before the penetration of Christianity women in Tonga society were playing leading roles in Tonga traditional...

The theme of this study is that contrary to widely-held views, the colonial state was not always hostile to African farming, nor was its policies uniform everywhere. In Chipata district, the colonial state showed versatility in its relationship with African peasant farming.Contrary to the...

Contrary to widely held views among earlier scholars of the Zambian peasantry, this study has established that the Luvale-Lunda people living in Zambezi district became peasant farmers between 1936 and 1964 when they successfully and consistently produced both usevalues and exchange-values. It...

While the recent years have seen Zambia become increasingly dependent on foreign savings for its economic and developmental programmes, access to these savings is becoming more difficult. This implies that the country will have to depend more on the mobilisation of domestic savings, if it is to...

This study basically attempts to examine the development of worker consciousness among African railway workers in Zambia. Worker consciousness is defined here as the awareness of the workers of their situation, whether of exploitation or gain, at their place of work. The awareness arose out of...

HIV/AIDS has been acutely experienced in the rural areas of Zambia. In fact the effect of HIV/AIDS on elderly women has changed their role from being looked after to looking after others especially grandchildren, after their parents have died of HIV/AIDS.Therefore the epidemic has slowly but...

In a liberalised economy the monetary authority traditionally relies on four instruments with which to control money supply, namely, open market operations, legal minimum reserve requirement changes, discount rat© policy and moral suasion. In this study the effectiveness of traditional...