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| Title: | State Building in Central Southern Africa: Citizenship and Subjectivity in Barotseland and Caprivi |
| Author: | Flint, Lawrence S. |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 393-428 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Namibia Zambia |
| Subjects: | ethnic identity Lozi colonialism Lozi polity history traditional polities Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3559389 |
| Abstract: | The stated perception of Namibian and Zambian governments that Caprivi and Barotse separatism are linked and in some way homogenous is patently incorrect. The explanation can be found in the historical construction of citizenship in the region and the differential impacts of formal imperialism on contemporary Lozi identity in Namibia and Zambia. The author analyses the rise of Lozi influence in southern Barotseland and Caprivi and examines specific periods of external influence imposed on the region: the colonization of the flat 'Bulozi' floodplain of the Upper Zambezi by the Luyi toward the end of the 16th century; the invasion and takeover of the Lozi kingdom by the Makololo people in the 1830s; the precolonial relationship between the Makololo and Lozi kings and Europeans; British colonialism in southern Barotseland, and German and South African colonialism in Caprivi (a southern component of the original Lozi kingdom); and the interaction between the Lozi regions and the respective postindependence governments. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
