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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456977803321

Autore

Larmer Miles.

Titolo

Rethinking African politics : a history of opposition in Zambia / / Miles Larmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-06441-0

1-315-60597-X

1-283-22380-5

9786613223807

1-4094-3494-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Collana

Empires and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000

Disciplina

324.26894

Soggetti

Opposition (Political science) - Zambia

Electronic books.

Zambia Politics and government 1964-1991

Zambia Politics and government 1991-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.