Archival Significance
Kay, a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Hull, produced this three years after Zambian independence, making it an early academic attempt to map population and settlement patterns for a newly independent state rather than a colonial-era survey.
Institutional Context
Published alongside Kay’s companion 1967 study, Maps of the Distribution and Density of African Population in Zambia, University of Zambia Institute for Social Research, the two works form a paired empirical and cartographic record of the same research programme.
Content Summary
A survey of Zambian population patterns, settlement distribution, density, and the social geography shaping them, framed explicitly around the challenges of a developing country in the immediate post-independence period.
Research Utility
A primary empirical source for demographic historians of early-independence Zambia, useful in conjunction with Kay’s companion mapping study for anyone reconstructing 1960s Zambian settlement patterns.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.