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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The Liquor Authority and Welfare Administration in Lusaka |
Author: | Rothman, Norman C. |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | African Urban Studies |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | Spring |
Pages: | 27-38 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zambia |
Subjects: | social policy drinking customs Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) colonialism History and Exploration Economics and Trade |
Abstract: | Welfare activities in Lusaka were highly influenced by the 'amenities' concept during the colonial period and came to be identified, perhaps paradoxically, with the liquor authority. The local beer hall, illegal brewing, and housing problem asked for another approach in welfare. While the welfare service posed the greatest barrier of the town-based services in terms of ultimate African ('Africans-in-employment') adjustment to the urban environment, during the postwar period a newly established social welfare department put the major emphasis on entertainment. This involved the prohibition of Africans making their own beer and other intoxicants, thereby cutting them off from a source of income, a source of cheap nourishment, and an activity associated with customs of hospitality. Supposedly geared to eater to traditional bias, welfare services were based on a violation of traditional customs. In the postwar phase welfare services favored the unattached individual over the family and concentrated on residents of municipal housing areas only. Ref. |