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Zambia: Nonviolent Strategies Against Colonialism, 1900s-1960s (Chapter 4 from ‘Recovering Nonviolent History’)

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Zambia: Nonviolent Strategies Against Colonialism, 1900s-1960s (Chapter 4 from ‘Recovering Nonviolent History’)

Zambia, previously known as Northern Rhodesia, is one of the five southern African countries, together with Malawi, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland, that achieved independence without recourse to armed resistance. From the second decade of the 1900s, Africans living in Northern Rhodesia began to organize themselves into civic and professional associations to improve their social and economic conditions under colonial rule[…]

Authors: Jotham C. Momba and Fay Gadsden
Editor: Maciej Bartkowski

From the book ‘Recovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles‘, 2013

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  • Zambia: Nonviolent Strategies Against Colonialism, 1900s-1960s (Chapter 4 from ‘Recovering Nonviolent History’)
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