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Influenced by studies that focus on social, economic and industrial life of urban areas in Africa and beyond, this study seeks to illuminate how the creation of the Chilanga Cement Factory in the late 1940s impacted on the development of Chilanga Township and the surrounding environment. The...

The central theme of this study is to explore the link between football and politics in Zambia from 1964 to 1991. The study investigates how politics influenced the development of the sport in Zambia. It reveals that under the government of the United National Independence Party (UNIP) football...

This study attempts to reconstruct the history of Mayukwayukwa Refugee Settlement. It examines the role and function that was played by the settlement between 1966 and 2013. By 2013, the refugee settlement was the oldest in Zambia. It is illustrated in the study how most of the changes that...

This study reconstructs the history of the National Agricultural Marketing Board (Namboard) in promoting food security during its operation years from 1969 to 1989. It does this by analysing why it was important and necessary to have a good marketing system in attaining food security. The study...

Few subjects have attracted as much scholarly attention during the colonial period in Zambia as African mineworkers. Most historical works that discuss the activities of this influential labour group have approached it from the prisms of their struggle or constant clashes with mining capital or...

This study, entitled ‘A Morpho-semantic Analysis of Locatives in Town Bemba’, was conducted in order to explore the different morphosemantic forms that Bemba locatives, including their variants convey when deployed in different social contexts. The study was carried out in Kabwe Urban district of...

By exploring the morphology, meanings, significance and sources of names, one would be struck by the wealth of information which certain nicknames provide about the name bearers, society that gives them and the social environment they live in. Ng’umbo people have nicknames as part of their naming...

Land suitability is concerned with the process of estimating the fitness of land for alternative agricultural uses. Land suitability analysis for soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) production culminates into suitability maps that can be used by farmers in decision making to enhance sustainable land...

Background: The safe recovery of patients admitted to hospital depends on early detection of clinical and physiological deterioration and undertaking appropriate intervention to prevent mortality. Modified early warning score (MEWS) is a structured objective way of monitoring patients’ condition...

This work proposed the design and development of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) based Radio Frequency Identification Grain Inventory Management System (RFID GIMS) for the Food Reserve Agency (FRA.) RFID is an automated system that utilizes wireless technology to uniquely identify and track...