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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 relations between the Mbundu of Northern Angola and the Portuguese, which for centuries had been dominated by the slave trade, were transformed in the nineteenth century. The emergence of the Coffee industry in Kwanza North affords an opportunity to study the transition from the Portuguese...

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...

Financial intermediation is essential for economic development. The consensus is that Zambia needs a stable and efficient banking system in order to finance both private and public investment and expenditures. The effectiveness of the banking system in channelling funds from surplus to deficit...

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...

The period 1883-1925 marked the beginning of formal western education in Northern Rhodesia. Most of the education provided was for young men. Lack of emphasis on women at this stage had an adverse effect on the later development of their education. After 1925 the government of Northern Rhodesia...

In Chipata,Asians have been engaged in trading since colonial times. Trading has been their principal occupation even though agriculture is the predominant economic activity in the area. This study examines the evolution of the Asian trading class in Chipata between 1900 and 1964. It provides a...

For many years, scholars on Zambian history have concentrated on two themes:mining and agriculture. The two subjects have dominated, perhaps, because of the central position they hold in the country's economy. Little attention has been given to tourism, which is equally a vital industry with...