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Title:Traditionalism, Democracy and Political Participation: The Case of Western Province, Zambia
Author:Sumbwa, NyambeISNI
Year:2000
Periodical:African Study Monographs
Volume:21
Issue:3
Period:July
Pages:105-146
Language:English
Geographic term:Zambia
Subjects:Lozi
traditional rulers
elections
1996
political participation
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Politics and Government
External link:https://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/abstracts/pdf/21-3/105-146.pdf
Abstract:This paper discusses several issues in relation to the 1996 presidential and parliamentary elections in Zambia. First, the extent to which the Lozi commonality still accorded loyality to their traditional authority (the Litunga) and the question of whether of not they were going to be influenced to vote according to his will. Second, the issue of the relations that existed between the Lozi royal establishment and the Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD) government, and its related subject - 'The Barotseland Agreement'. Third, the issues of the people's perceptions of the elections, with reference to their being free and fair, the people's political party/party leader preferences, the people's rating of the ruling party's performance in terms of development and the upholding of human rights. The paper also deals with the manner in which the election campaigns were conducted as well as the results of both the presidential and parliamentary polls themselves. The text of the Barotseland Agreement of 1964 is included in an appendix. App., bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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