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Living the End of Empire: Politics and Society in Late Colonial Zambia Gewald, J.B.; Hinfelaar, M.; Macola, G Living the end of empire: politics and society in late colonial Zambia Gewald, J.B.; Hinfelaar, M.; Macola, G. Citation Gewald, J. B., Hinfelaar, M., & Macola, G. (2011). Living the end of empire: politics and society in late colonial Zambia. Leiden: Brill. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/18560 Version: Not Applicable (or Unknown) License: Leiden University Non-exclusive license Downloaded from: https://hdl.handle.net/1887/18560 Note: To cite this publication please use the final published version (if applicable). Living the end of empire Afrika-Studiecentrum Series VOLUME 20? Living the end of empire Politics and society in late colonial Zambia Edited by Jan-Bart Gewald Marja Hinfelaar Giacomo Macola Brill Published by: Brill Academic Publishers P.O. Box 605 2300 PA Leiden The Netherlands Tel: +31 (0)71 53 53 566 Fax: +31 (0)71 53 17 532 E-mail: [email protected] ISSN: ISBN: © Andrew Dunlop Roberts, who retired in 1998 from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, as Emeritus Professor of the History of Africa, is the doyen of Zambia’s academic history. The author of A History of the Bemba (1973), an all-time classic of African historiography, and subsequently of A History of Zambia (1976), still unsurpassed as an account of Zambia’s history up to and beyond Independence, Andrew Roberts has supervised and motivated several generations of Zambianists. By dedicating this set of essays to him, the editors and contributors place on record the enormous debt of gratitude they all owe him. The gentlemanly academe so perfectly epitomized by Andrew Roberts may be disappearing, but his rigorous scholarship, wide- ranging erudition and generous collegiality remain enduring sources of inspiration. Contents ANDREW D. ROBERTS: AN APPRECIATION 1 John McCracken PART I: BACKGROUND 1. INTRODUCTION: A NEW TAKE ON LATE COLONIAL NORTHERN RHODESIA 7 Giacomo Macola, Jan-Bart Gewald & Marja Hinfelaar 2. NORTHERN RHODESIA: THE POST-WAR BACKGROUND, 1945-1953 18 Andrew D. Roberts PART II: THE POLYPHONY OF AFRICAN NATIONALISM 3. HARRY MWAANGA NKUMBULA AND THE FORMATION OF ZANC/UNIP: A REINTERPRETATION 29 Giacomo Macola 4. KALONGA GAWA UNDI X, NATIONALISTS AND THE QUEST FOR FREEDOM IN NORTHERN RHODESIA IN THE 1950S 65 Walima T. Kalusa 5. THE REALIZATION OF A CATHOLIC SOCIAL DOCTRINE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN NORTHERN RHODESIA IN THE 1950S 86 Marja Hinfelaar 6. ODD MAN OUT: LABOUR, POLITICS AND DIXON KONKOLA 103 Kenneth P. Vickery PART III: THE UNSETTLED WORLD OF SETTLERS 7. PROLETARIANS IN PARADISE: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF WHITE MINERS ON THE COPPERBELT 129 Ian Phimister 8. RIVERS OF WHITE: DAVID LIVINGSTONE AND THE 1955 COMMEMORATIONS IN THE LOST ‘HENLEY-UPON-THAMES OF CENTRAL AFRICA’ 147 Joanna E. Lewis 9. FEARS AND FANTASIES IN NORTHERN RHODESIA, 1950–1960 187 Jan-Bart Gewald 10. INDIAN POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN COLONIAL ZAMBIA: THE CASE OF LIVINGSTONE’S INDIAN TRADERS 207 Friday Mufuzi 11. CINEMAS, SPICES AND SPORT: RECOLLECTIONS OF HINDU LIFE IN 1950S NORTHERN RHODESIA 224 Joan M. Haig PART IV: PARTICIPATING OBSERVERS 12. HISTORIOGRAPHY ON THE LUAPULA: IAN CUNNISON’S ‘FISHING AREA’, MWERU-LUAPULA 1948-1959 247 Christopher M. Annear 13. FRANCES BOLTON, MARGARET TIBBETTS AND THE US RELATIONS WITH THE RHODESIAN FEDERATION, 1950-1960 270 Andrew J. DeRoche Andrew D. Roberts: An appreciation John McCracken Terence Ranger has suggested that African historians can be divided into two main groups: those like himself whose research have focused on one country, albeit with periodic excursions into other areas, and those who have moved from one country to another across the continent, never staying long enough to be identified with a particular locality. Andrew Roberts fits into neither of these categories. His earliest work, after leaving Cambridge, was in Kampala, where he carried out the research that led to the publication of his path- breaking article on ‘The Sub-Imperialism of the Baganda’.1 His first full-time job was as oral historian in Dar es Salaam, where he worked on Nyamwezi trade and edited an important book, Tanzania before 1900 (1968), which brought together recent research from across the country.2 Later, at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies he extended his interests on a continent-wide scale into the colonial period in work that came to a climax in Volume 7 of the Cambridge History of Africa (1905 to 1940), a book edited 1 A.D. Roberts, ‘The sub-imperialism of the Baganda’, Journal of African History, 3 (1962), pp. 435-50. 2 A.D. Roberts, ed., Tanzania before 1900: Seven area histories (Nairobi, 1968); ‘Nyamwezi Trade’. In: R. Gray & D. Birmingham, eds, Pre-colonial African trade (London, 1970), pp. 39-74. 2 MCCRACKEN with meticulous care by Roberts and containing no less than four chapters written by him.3 Yet if at one level, Roberts’s expertise extends across the African continent and beyond to the African diaspora, his place as the leading historian of Zambia cannot be challenged. I have always thought it a little surprising that a scholar with such a bookish and urban background as Roberts (the son of two distinguished British writers, himself deeply immersed in English literature) should have enrolled at Wisconsin as one of Jan Vansina’s first doctoral students in African oral history. The beneficial consequences for Zambian history, however, cannot be doubted. In turning to Zambia and focusing on the Bemba for his PhD dissertation, Roberts was able to avail himself of the remarkably rich scholarly legacy left by a generation of anthropologists linked to the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, notably the work of Audrey Richards. But, as he subsequently noted, ‘little of the work bearing specifically on the Bemba was concerned with history’ and in consequence he was entering onto largely uncharted waters. The resultant study, A History of the Bemba, published in 1973 though principally based on field research conducted in 1964-65, set the bench-mark by which future studies of pre- colonial Zambian history would be judged.4 His introductory quotation, from Antonio Gamitto’s 1832 comment on the Bemba, reveals much of Robert’s painstaking approach: Information I got from some people when set against information I got from others always revealed contradictions. But by dint of much work and thought I consider that what follows is not far from the truth. At the heart of the book are the interviews he and his assistant carried out with over 80 informants. But to these are added Roberts’s meticulous dissection of the work of previous amateur collectors of oral traditions as well as his careful study of virtually every literary source available. In later articles, such as his pioneering account of ‘Livingstone: the Historian’, he was able to throw fresh light on early European sources, for example revealing discrepancies, previously unknown, between what Livingstone wrote in his diaries and what was published in Horace Waller’s edition.5 It is no surprise that, more than 40 years on, A History of the Bemba remains the essential starting point from which all subsequent research in the region stems. 3 A.D. Roberts, ed., The Cambridge History of Africa, Vol. 7: From 1905 to 1940 (Cambridge, 1986). 4 A.D. Roberts, A history of the Bemba: Political growth and change in North- Eastern Zambia before 1900 (London, 1973). 5 A.D. Roberts, ‘Livingstone’s value to the historian of African Societies’, in Centre of African Studies, David Livingstone and Africa (Edinburgh, 1973). AN APPRECIATION 3 Roberts’s second major achievement as a Zambian historian is his History of Zambia, published in 1976, an eminently scholarly yet accessible volume, which builds on Roberts’s experience both as a doctoral student in the mid- 1960s and also as research fellow at the University of Zambia from 1968 to 1971.6 In the 1960s and early 1970s the creation of independent African states was followed by the publication of many ‘national’ histories, often designed on the basis of limited evidence to demonstrate that the shiny new post- colonial state had deep historical roots and that the necessary outcome of anti- colonial struggle was the emergence of the fully-fledged African nation. As early as 1967, in his chapters on Zambia for Aspects of Central African History, Roberts had demonstrated his reluctance to limit his focus to this approach by rejecting the single-minded emphasis on African resistance taken by other contributors.7 And this attitude was even more apparent in A History of Zambia, which he described as ‘a study of history in Zambia rather than a history of Zambia’. The result is a book, based on careful scholarship yet entirely accessible to readers, which has retained its value, while other national histories have not, precisely because it has not attempted to force Zambia’s pre-colonial and colonial path into a nationalist straitjacket. Well over half the book, nearly 150 pages out of 254 of text, is devoted to an admirably clear and dispassionate account of the pre-colonial history of people living in the Zambian region. Although ‘the growth of a nation’ is the almost obligatory title for the chapter on African politics from 1930 to 1964, it is partnered by a chapter, ‘Mines and Migration’, which provides a marvellously lucid introduction to the making of the colonial economy. Scholars working directly on Zambia are well equipped to appreciate the variety of Andrew Roberts’s contributions to their field. They include his painstaking supervision of many PhD theses (one of them written by the joint- editor of this volume) and his careful editing of myriads of articles during his long and distinguished tenure as editor of the Journal of African History.
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