Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Rethinking African politics : a history of opposition in Zambia
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
-
This study examines the nature of government and political opposition in Zambia, in the years immediately following its independence in 1964. It shows how Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independe...
This study examines the nature of government and political opposition in Zambia, in the years immediately following its independence in 1964. It shows how Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party's (UNIP) grip on the new nation-state was, in contrast to official rhetoric, partial, uneven and consistently prone to challenge. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, Larmer offers a ground-breaking analysis of post-colonial political history which helps explain the challenges facing contemporary African polities.
Details
- Creator
- Miles Larmer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2016
- Physical Details
-
- 1 online resource (340 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1409482499, 1317064410, 131560597X, 1283223805, 9786613223807, 140943494X, 140940627X
- OCLC
- ocn749264324, on1018165532, ocn950005424, on1136531048
- First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Becoming Zambia--UNIP and the transition to independence in northern Rhodesia, 1952-1964 -- The United Progressive Party: towards a one-party state, 1964-1973 -- Disunity under the one-party state, 1973-1979 -- The Mushala rebellion -- Intellectual elites and the 1980 coup attempt -- "We have to think for other people": Zambia and South Africa -- Nationalism and social movements -- Epilogue: after UNIP: political change and continuity in Zambia's third republic, 1991-2010 -- Conclusion: towards a history of post-colonial politics in Africa