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Title: | Traditionalism, Democracy and Political Participation: The Case of Western Province, Zambia |
Author: | Sumbwa, Nyambe |
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] |