Lozi – Abantu Archives

Seven Tribes of British Central Africa

1950s, 1960s, Africa, Anthropology, Manchester University Press, Southern Africa

Archival Significance Edited by Elizabeth Colson and Max Gluckman, both major figures in the Manchester School of social anthropology and closely associated with the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, this edited collection is…

Bulozi Under The Luyana Kings Political Evolution and State Formation in Pre-colonial Zambia

1970s, Longman Group, Northern Rhodesia, PreHistory, Zambia

Archival Significance

A pioneering academic history of Barotseland’s political evolution and state formation, written by Mutumba Mainga, among the first Zambian women to complete a doctorate in history and a foundational figure in the historiography of the Lozi kingdom.