Much of the scholarly work on politics in Zambia during the early 2000s stresses the role of
populist mobilisations and the exploitation of ethnic language identities when explaining …

Presidents have access to a range of resources unavailable to challengers, and often the
most important are derived from control of the state. This allows incumbents to build more …

This paper tracks how the Patriotic Front (PF)–Zambia's main opposition from 2006 to 2011,
when the party won power–shifted its strategies of dealing with the urban poor, civil society …

ABSTRACT In January 2004, residents of Zambia's capital, Lusaka, were treated to a
disturbing sight. Over 200 members of the governing Movement for Multiparty Democracy …

Much of the scholarly work on politics in Zambia's one-party state stresses the non-
competitiveness of its parliamentary elections and holds that politicians were unable to …

This book interrogates the ideology and practices of liberal constitutionalism in the Zambian
postcolony. The analysis focuses on the residual political and governmental effects of an …

From the breakup of the Central African Federation in 1963 until the departure of British
officers and trainers in the early 1970s, Kenneth Kaunda led the Zambian government in …

This chapter examines the interaction between charisma and politics in Africa. Two broad
groups of charismatic political leaders are discussed: those who came to the fore during the …

In this BPhil thesis, I propose that One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez
1967) and The Old Drift (Namwali Serpell 2019) are decolonial novels in the sense that they …

It is rumoured that Zambian anticolonial activist Munukayumbwa Sipalo (1929–94) was at
Bandung–that is to say, that he attended the famous Asian-African Conference of statesmen …