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This study examines the transition of domestic slaves in Bulozi to freedom from 1780 to 1925. It reveals that the landscape of the Lozi kingdom supported productive activities such as gardening, fishing, cattle keeping, trading, the construction of houses, canals and mounds, all of which needed...

Taxation of Africans by the colonial state was a poignant foundational cogwheel of colonial economic orthodoxy whose implementation and dynamics pervaded almost every aspect of African economic life. Colonial taxation was intended to serve among other purposes the provision of revenue for...

This study examines the history of the Ngoni chiefs under colonial rule in Northern Rhodesia’s Fort Jameson (Chipata) from 1895 to 1964. It shows the responses and reactions of the chiefs and the people they ruled towards the policies of the British South Africa Company and later of governments...

This study examined the way historians explain the concept of power in pre-colonial Mwata Kazembe’s kingdom by using tribute and trade. Considering historians deal in multiple causes, this in itself was the limitation of the study because it did not consider any other forms of explanation of...

Like every other kind of historical research, the subject matter of this study cannot be considered exhausted. Both for the limitations to historical research and writing in general, and more so for the period involved (pre-colonial), it could not have been possible for everything pertaining to...

This is a study of the social history of the Kalomo and Livingstone Districts of Northern Rhodesia. It covers the period 1890-1939. The study focusses attention on the theme of African adaptation to the colonial law enforcement system. Chapter 1 describes the area of this study and the people who...

This is a study of the changing role of women in agriculture, taking a case study of Kalabo district in the period 1906 to 1986. It examines the changing role of women In agriculture in the context of the impact of colonialism and penetration of capitalism The study which takes a chronological...

This dissertation studies the consequences of the WNLA closure on Bulozi. It focuses on the negative and positive consequences that have emerged in the province between 1966 and 1986. The study begins by examining generally the factors that stimulated labour migration in the province before and...

This study examines the significance of Journeys in the novels of Ferdinand Oyono,Wa Thiongo Ngugi, and George Eliot with special focus on The Old man and the Medal, Devil on the Cross, and Silas Marner.The study uses close textual analysis through Jung’s theory of Individuation and...

This study examines the significance of Journeys in the novels of Ferdinand Oyono, Wa Thiongo Ngugi, and George Eliot with special focus on The Old man and the Medal, Devil on the Cross, and Silas Marner. The study uses close textual analysis through Jung's theory of Individuation and...