Towards a History of Ideas in Zambia

Kanduza, Ackson M.

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Title:	Towards a History of Ideas in Zambia
Author:	Kanduza, Ackson M.
Year:	1990
Periodical:	Transafrican Journal of History
Volume:	19
Pages:	24-42
Language:	English
Notes:	biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:	Zambia Central Africa
Subjects:	cultural philosophy intellectuals biographies (form) History and Exploration History, Archaeology imperialism education class struggle
About persons:	Yuyi W. Mupatu (1897-1982) Paul Bwembya Mushindo ( -1972)
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/24328673
Abstract:	This paper traces ways in which intellectual ideas have developed and evolved in Zambia and their continuing implications for the society as a whole. The focus is on the intellectual experiences and achievements of two Zambians, both born at the end of the 19th century: Bwembya Paul Mushindo, who died in 1972, and Yuyi W. Mupatu, who died in 1982. They offer data for examining the African mode of thought, its expression, and ideas that have been passed to the present through written documents. A review of their careers shows that they were social actors who linked thought, practice and action. They are sources of intellectual history because of what they wrote, their ideals, achievements and efforts. They left written reflections of concerns over three generations. They rooted African feeling and rejection of colonial rule in their cultural heritage. They integrated their concrete experiences into discourse of wide effect on Zambia. They were innovators because they tried to weave their past into their contemporary conditions with an eye on the future. Evidence for this is in Mushindo's project to translate the Bible into Bemba, and his political comments from the late 1940s. Mupatu persisted with three ventures: teaching, trading and the self-help Makapulwa school. Ref.

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