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This study examines Swazi women's role in the development of their country, and focusses specifically on their participation in rural development programmes for women. With regard to their involvement in these programmes, two assumptions, which appear in the literature on women's role in...

This report is based on the findings after one month stay in Kazimule and Chagunda areas, sponsored by KEPA. The report is about women in Chadiza District in the process of development. The emphasis of the report is on empowerment which can enable women to play leading roles in their development...

The Catholic Church is making efforts to recognize the importance of equal participation of women and men in decision making. The Church has acknowledged the many activities that the women are involved in, in their parishes through the lay group organizations. Leadership in any institution or...

This thesis is a critical study of two approaches used to analyse Zambia's regional policies in Southern Africa in the period 1964-80. One approach, the idiosyncratic, regards personality and ideology as the central factors that have shaped the country's regional behaviour while the political...

This study sets out to examine critically the direction that Zambian theatre has taken since independence and to draw attention to the problems and contradictions in its development. Particular divisions that exist within Zambian theatre, such as that between the Theatre Association of Zambia...

This study is an attempt to examine the history of agricultural research in Zambia. To do this effectively, Mount Makulu Central Research Station has been chosen. This is because it has always been the most important agricultural research station in the country.The study is divided into five...

The question as to whether the plantation system is good or bad for developing countries, is indeed an issue which has aroused much debate among scholars. Whereas some have assessed the system in positive terms, others have analysed it in negative terms. It is, therefore, in this context that an...

Poverty is as old as humanity. In Zambia many pre-colonial societies suffered the vice that existed in a different form. But with the advent of colonialism and subsequent development of modern capitalist industries, the dynamics of poverty in Zambia changed. The shifts of men and women from rural...

This dissertation traces the development of road passenger public transport in Lusaka from the colonial to the post-colonial period. It examines interventionist measures taken by the state to deal with the persistent public transport crisis. The general belief has been that constraints of public...

Livingstone was founded in 1905. In its early period of development trade was in the hands of Europeans of mainly Jewish origin.During the 1910s, Asian trade developed and by the end of the Second World War trade had shifted into Asian hands. Trading became the main occupation of the Asians even...