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This dissertation discusses developmental policy-issues linked to events before and after the change of policy-actors in 1991 and the re-election of MMD state players in 1996 national elections. While its focus is on comparing institutional policy-making and policy-implementation capacity of the...

This world is devoted to a general survey of the legal and political aspects of the organisation of African Unity as it operates today. An attempt has been made to briefly trace the history of the O.A.U. and how it has attemted to solve disputes among its member states. The work has however,...

Methodological shortcoming, a narrow focus on students 88 a group isolated from the wider society, the tendency to consider the student apart from the institution in which he operates - the university - and the difficulty of coming to terms with the transience of student status are some of the...

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...

The question of the status of liberation Movements in Southern Africa is a topical controversy in both international law and politics. In some circles, liberation movements are branded as savage terrorist organisations and in some they are regarded as some kind of legitimate salvation armies...

The dissertation focusses on a comparative study of emergency powers under some Commonwealth African Constitutions with specific reference to Zambia. The importance of this subject is underlined by the fact that all Commonwealth African Countries possess emergency legislation. Moreover, such...

The Zambian economy, much to the dislike of the country's leadership, has been and still is dependent on hired skills and borrowed capital. This state of affairs is a legacy of the colonial past when colonies were made to believe and ran as if they would not exist on their own, and consequently...

One striking feature which the Zambian constitution shares in common with other constitutions of Commonwealth Africa is the phenomenon of wideemergency powers which exist under the constitution and also under the various emergency or security statutes and regulations made thereunder. These laws...

Over the recent years, there have been concerns among Zambians with regard to the quality of education in Zambia with a general feeling that it is declining. One of the factors that contributes to quality in education is the availability of adequate Educational Materials (EMs). However, in spite...