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This study is an attempt to assess the impact of colonial rule on the traditional cattle economy of the Ila in Southern Province of Zambia during the period of the colonial rule, 1900 to 1964.The Ila or Baila of Namwala District have had a long tradition of cattle rearing. In the pre-colonial...

The period 1900 to 1939 witnessed increased British efforts to establish cotton growing for export in Northern Rhodesia, However, the industry did not expand to viable proportions. The official explanation for the failure of the industry was set down first and foremost to pests' ravages. This,...

Market participations of African livestock-keepers is one subject that has generated.a lot of interest and controversy among authors. This study, which investigates the constraints on market participation^ of the Sukuma livestock-keepers during the British colonial period, largely emanates from...

This study is an attempt to contribute to the existing literature on agricultural settlement schemes in Zambia. The study is centered on the constraints on the development of the Mungwi Agricultural Settlement Scheme in northern Zambia. The study argues that the poor selection of settler farmers,...

This dissertation examines how and why the indigenous educational institution of milaka died out and that of sikenge changed in the period 1886-1975. In pre-colonial Bulozi, the institutions of milaka for boys and sikenge for girls were important in transmitting Lozi' norms and values and in...

This dissertation is divided into three chapters. Chapter one examines the impact of colonial rule and capital penetration on ecology and agriculture in the Sinazongwe sub-district between 1900 and 1958. The chapter demonstrates how colonial policies like land alienation, the Inyoka tobacco...

In the post war years, the colonial state in Zambia sought to improve African housing in urban areas. The object of this policy was to boost the morale of the African workers so that they could work harder and, therefore, produce more for the capitalist economy which the state wanted to help...

This dissertation reconstructs a history of hunger in the Gwembe Valley Chieftaincy of Mweemba. It covers the period between 19O5 and 1987. Since 1991 - 92, the period in which the study was being worked on, was a drought and hunger year a postscript was written to append to the main text.The...

The central theme of this study is to highlight the failure of game laws in both the colonial and post-colonial governments in conserving game in Kasempa District from 1934 to 1994. The study shows that because the Kaonde area had no cattle and lacked sufficient fish resources, hunting of game...

This dissertation examines the process of labour stabilization on the commercial farms in the Southern Province of Zambia between 1945 and 1980. It does this by attempting to show how post-Second World War technological innovations, rural-to-rural migrations, landlessness and population increase,...