Much of the existing historical work on politics in independent Zambia stresses the country's comparative lack of racial tension. However, this article argues that, as elsewhere in Africa, racial ideas were deployed in the early years after the achievement of independence in 1964 and found expression in the competing forms of nationalism that manifested themselves ...

Much of the existing historical work on politics in independent Zambia stresses the country's comparative lack of racial tension. However, this article argues that, as elsewhere in Africa, racial ideas were deployed in the early years after the achievement of independence in 1964 and found expression in the competing forms of nationalism that manifested themselves ...

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 one of the main political developments of this period - the growing popularity of Michael Sata and his opposition party, the Patriotic Front. A common limitation of these studies is th...