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Title: | An Old Nationalist in New Nationalist Times: Donald Siwale and the State in Zambia: 1948-1963 |
Author: | Wright, Marcia |
Year: | 1997 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 339-351 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Zambia Great Britain |
Subjects: | colonialism biographies (form) nationalism Politics and Government History and Exploration |
About person: | Donald Siwale |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637626 |
Abstract: | Donald Siwale, missionary teacher, government clerk and interpreter, member of the African Representative Council, took the positive view that governance in colonial Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) could be beneficial to the people. He was a pace-setter amongst the early educated elite and served in numerous capacities as a mediator. He was also a moralist and social critic. This article examines his thought and career in the late colonial period, when he straddled between prominence in the African National Congress (ANC) and positions within the hierarchy built upon Native Authorities. He participated in the African Representative Council throughout its existence, 1946-1958. As an improver, he could not forego the opportunity to prod the administration, for example, by joining the Provincial Development Team. Opposing Northern Rhodesia's incorporation into the Central African Federation, he expounded on the nature of chiefs as repositories of legitimacy. Nationalism, however, drew on increasingly populist sources, isolating the educated elite as a differentiated class. This article uses a singular individual to explore the issues of political legitimacy in a time of constitutional irresolution. Notes, ref., sum. |