4. Traditional Rulers, Nationalists And The Quest For Freedom In Northern Rhodesia In The 1950s

Kalusa, Walima T.

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“…This, in turn, weakened the institutions in the eyes of those constituencies which, in accordance with the idea of "indirect rule," expected African representatives to be connected to royal families. 68 In February 1957, four years into the existence of the Central African Federation, the Brown Report was presented. It had been commissioned by the Legislative Council in December 1955 and responded to pressure emerging from the demands of people taking to African nationalist parties.…”

Section: The Changing Significance Of Rent Against the Backdrop Of Hementioning

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2. The Rule of Rent: The State, Employers and the Becoming Urban Dweller in Northern Rhodesia Acting Across a Societal Field of Force, c. 1948–1962

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The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa

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could be wise to have appointed Africansless so elected oneson advisory boards and committees. 4 This was a paternal gesture along the lines that to advise was to learn while to rule was to teach. Hence, it was not intended to incorporate Africans politically or as fully rights-bearing citizens into the country's emerging conviction "that modern life and improved living standards could be open to all, regardless of race or history of subjugation." 5 As a result, housing policies consciously withheld resources towards self-assertion or security of tenure. They made available accommodation in the form of social benefits and welfare tokens. Although today housing experiences are dominated by private renting, a free market philosophy, and the use of housing property to achieve financial gain, for the purpose of this paper, we have to engage with a completely different logic. State and employers who had no particular purview of investment or financially gainful speculation provided housing jointly and with a view of "stabilizing" labor. In this scenario, the payment of rent became a relation that tied up in a web of power the metropolitan colonial state, its Northern Rhodesia government, urban bureaucracies, small as well as internationally operating employers, and the becoming urban dwellersbe they European, African or otherwise, be they immigrants from the South or elsewhere, colonial staff, industrial workers, or anyone else. This paper aims to show how a considerable number of acting bodies and individuals became tied up in the politics of rent. It sets out to detail how and to which effect these actors perceived each other through the experiences of rent payment and collection, and how they tried to make the best out of a system that was complicated and fraught with power biases as well as loopholes. The paper will furthermore assess the changes of some of these constellations as they occurred between 1948, when the African Housing Ordinance was passed, and 1962, when (after a complicated general election) European dominance ended and, with the installation of the first "black government", the path for Zambia's independence was set. 6

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Section: The Changing Significance Of Rent Against the Backdrop Of Hementioning

confidence: 99%

2. The Rule of Rent: The State, Employers and the Becoming Urban Dweller in Northern Rhodesia Acting Across a Societal Field of Force, c. 1948–1962

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4. Traditional Rulers, Nationalists And The Quest For Freedom In Northern Rhodesia In The 1950s

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2. The Rule of Rent: The State, Employers and the Becoming Urban Dweller in Northern Rhodesia Acting Across a Societal Field of Force, c. 1948–1962

2. The Rule of Rent: The State, Employers and the Becoming Urban Dweller in Northern Rhodesia Acting Across a Societal Field of Force, c. 1948–1962

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