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Zambia. Northern Rhodesia was a British protectorate in Southern Africa, now the independent country of Zambia. It was formed in 1911 by amalgamating the two earlier protectorates of Barotziland-North-Western Rhodesia and North-Eastern Rhodesia. [1][2][3][4] It was initially administered, as were the two earlier protectorates, by the British ...
Zambia portal. v. t. e. The history of Zambia experienced many stages from colonisation to independence from Britain on 24 October 1964. Northern Rhodesia became a British sphere of influence in the present-day region of Zambia in 1888, and was officially proclaimed a British protectorate in 1924. After many years of suggested mergers, Southern ...
In 1940, as the Northern Rhodesia Congress (NRC), also known as the Northern Rhodesia African Congress (NRAC), was formed. Godwin Lewanika, a Barotseland native from an aristocratic background, became the first president. [1][2] It was the first African political party in the country. NRC had its roots in the Federation of Welfare Societies ...
The British South Africa Company 's administration of what became Rhodesia was chartered in 1889 by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and began with the Pioneer Column 's march north-east to Mashonaland in 1890. Empowered by its charter to acquire, govern and develop the area north of the Transvaal in southern Africa, the Company, headed by ...
Profession. Teacher, trade unionist, businessman, farmer. Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula (15 January 1916 – 8 October 1983) [1][2] was a Zambian nationalist leader involved in the movement for the independence of Northern Rhodesia, as Zambia was known until the end of British rule in 1964. He was born in the village of Maala in the Namwala district ...
The Federation also issued its own bank notes and coinage to replace the Southern Rhodesian pound which had been circulating in all three parts of the federation, Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland. In 1955 a full new set of coins were issued with the Mary Gillick obverse of the Queen and various African animals on the reverse ...
Lists. v. t. e. The Rhodes-Livingstone Institute (RLI) was the first local anthropological research facility in Africa; it was founded in 1937 under the initial directorship of Godfrey Wilson. [1][2] It is located a few miles outside Lusaka. [3] Designed to allow for easier study of the local cultures of Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, it became ...
1935 Copperbelt strike. A major strike broke out among African mineworkers in the Copperbelt Province of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) on 29 May 1935 in protest against taxes levied by the British colonial administration. The strike involved three of the province's four major copper mines: those in Mufulira, Nkana and Roan Antelope.