National integration, rural development and frontier communities: the case of the Chewa and the Ngoni astride Zambian boundaries with Malawi and Mozambique

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Title:	National integration, rural development and frontier communities: the case of the Chewa and the Ngoni astride Zambian boundaries with Malawi and Mozambique
Author:	Phiri, S.H.
Book title:	Partitioned Africans: ethnic relations across Africa's international boundaries 1884-1984 / ed. by A.I. Asiwaju
Year:	1985
Pages:	105-125
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Southern Africa
Subjects:	Chewa Ngoni boundaries
Abstract:	Focusing on the Chewa and the Ngoni astride the Zambia-Malawi and Zambia-Mozambique boundaries, the author discusses the contradiction between, on the one hand, the state formation and the nationalism which evolve within the prescribed boudaries of the post-colonial states and, on the other, the cross-border ethnic and cultural preservation and linkages which tend to confound the demarcating purpose of the boundaries. He draws attention to the implications of this contradictions for the rural development policy of the Zambia Government as it concerns the land and peoples in the frontier zones, and demonstrates that the socio-economic space generated by the boundaries spreads far on either side of the political lines themselves. Notes.