Donderdag 28 Januari 2016

The territories that would make up what is today the Republic of Zambia officially became British in 1891. However, this did not equate to an on-the-ground presence of colonial authority capable of affecting the destiny and daily lives of people. Prof. Jan-Bart Gewald's work, as published in Forged in the Great War: People, transport, and labour, the establishment of colonial rule in Zambia, 1890 – 1920 (Leiden, 2015) indicates that the establishment of effective colonial rule in Northern Rhodesia only came about on account of the unique conditions that developed in the First World War (1914-1918); conditions that led to the massive application of human labour, obtained through the intercedence of Chiefs and Headmen in exchange for goods and money. Please register

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