Lusaka\u27s Colonial Legacy: Town Planning, Public Health, and the Making of a Segregated City, 1913–1963. A Study of Power, Inequality, and Urban Development

This paper explores the intersection of town planning and public health policy in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), during the colonial period (1913–1963), which was a time of significant urban growth and transformation. British colonial authorities adapted Ebenezer Howard\u27s Garden City principles to design and manage Lusaka, but these measures perpetuated spatial control, segregation, and social engineering, thus exacerbating racial and socio-economic disparities. By analysing secondary and primary sources, including planning ordinances, zoning regulations, and public health policies, this study reveals how these measures shaped the city\u27s development and reinforced inequalities. Despite colonial intentions for a white settler-city, Lusaka evolved into an African majority urban centre, with 89% of the population comprising Africans by 1963. This research offers valuable insights for scholars, urban planners, and policymakers grappling with the legacies of colonialism and urban inequality, thus informing strategies to create more equitable and sustainable cities

“Blood and Fire” in Chikankata: An Idiosyncratic Approach to Religious Conversion by the Salvation Army in Colonial Zambia, 1945–1964

This article examines distinctive strategies used by the Salvation Army to convert Africans to Christianity in the Chikankata district of Zambia. Using data from both primary and secondary sources, the article argues that the Salvation Army largely relied on African agents and the use of open-air meetings, march pasts, uniform wearing, and brass bands as methods of evangelism. This stands in contrast to academic lenses that have viewed and endorsed missionary education and healthcare provision as principal methods of evangelism in colonial central Africa

In Lieu of the NLRA

Throughout the past hundred years, states have enacted laws and constitutional clauses protecting the rights of private sector workers to associate, organize, and collectively bargain with their employers. These laws have remained dormant and relatively inactive because the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) preempts state and local regulation of private sector labor relations. But now the NLRA is dysfunctional and on the brink of collapse. In lieu of the NLRA, those state laws offer a backstop for worker organizing under state law. This Essay describes those state laws and offers paths for concurrent application alongside a decaying NLRA and an imploding National Labor Relations Board. NLRA preemption is premised on the capacity to enforce the NLRA and on a baseline acceptance of the law’s application and Constitutional legitimacy. Those baselines for NLRA preemption arguments are now tested as the NLRA loses capacity, scope, and legitimacy. Concretely I suggest that NLRA preemption depends on 1) a functional National Labor Relations Board and 2) limited to employers that do not try to evade the NLRA by misclassifying employees (e.g., student athletes), or by arguing the NLRA is unconstitutional. By describing existing state private sector labor laws and offering a new view on preemption arguments this Essay contributes to the pressing need to identify paths for collective voice and power in work as employers and their proxies capture and dismantle the federal labor relations framework

Understanding Project Mentality as a Threat to the Sustainability of Donor-Supported Interventions: Insights from a Zambian Reading Intervention

This article provides valuable insights into project mentality (PM) as a threat to the sustainability of donor-supported interventions. The article examines factors triggering PM through a case study of a donor-supported reading intervention in Zambia and proposes ways to minimise the impact of PM. The study adopted a qualitative-interpretivist-case study approach, including interviews with 35 key stakeholders (eight head teachers, fifteen teachers, six representatives from donor agencies, and six Ministry of Education officials) and data collection through document analysis and classroom observations. Different attitudes and behaviour, such as stereotyping, alienation, and lack of confidence, ownership, commitment, and interest in donor-driven interventions, contributed to the intervention\u27s poor sustainability. The recommendation arising from this study is to employ appropriate strategies, such as fostering a culture of genuine ownership, confidence, commitment, and interest among aid beneficiaries. PM is a multifaceted phenomenon that requires further research. Overall, the article contributes to understanding the dynamics of the PM within donor-supported interventions, and advocates for the development of strategies to mitigate its effects. __________________________________________________________________________________________

The Cashew Nut Industry in Mongu District: Origins, Development, and Impact, 1972–2011

This article explores the contribution of the cashew nut industry to the economic development of Mongu district. The industry was introduced in Mongu district after the Zambian government embarked on the creation of agricultural schemes to reduce the economic imbalance, inherited from the colonial government, between urban and rural areas. The new United National Independence Party government, which came to power in 1964, wanted to develop rural areas through an improved peasantry class. This led to the establishment of agricultural schemes in various rural parts of the country. Due to the sandy terrain of Mongu district, the cashew nut industry was chosen for that area. Contrary to other studies which portray agricultural schemes to have failed completely, this article argues that the benefits accrued to the local people should not go unnoticed. Despite facing various challenges, peasant farmers in Mongu were resilient enough to continue growing cashew nuts. In this way, Mongu district benefitted from the industry economically through employment provision, women’s financial empowerment, promotion of local trade, and improved food security. The article relies heavily on primary sources of information available in the National Archives of Zambia, the Zambia Agricultural Research Institute Library, and oral sources from key informants from Mongu district. __________________________________________________________________________________________

Garfield Todd: The End of the Liberal Dream in Rhodesia, by Susan Woodhouse (Harare: Weaver Press, 2018)

Susan Woodhouse spent 25 years writing this biographic book about Garfield Todd. Todd was the prime minister of Southern Rhodesia for five years from 1953 to 1958. The book is derived from the author’s memory of working for Todd for two years while he was in office. More importantly, the author gathered data for the book from archival research in Zimbabwe over a period of seven years

Boeing Ruling Is A Cautionary Tale For Trade Secret Litigants

On Aug. 14, a $72 million jury trial win by Zunum Aero Inc. against The Boeing Co. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington for trade secret misappropriation evaporated with the court\u27s post-trial holding that Zunum had failed to identify its trade secrets sufficiently. How did we get here after three years of litigation, eight days of trial and countless dollars spent? How can litigants — and courts — avoid this situation in the future? Clear pretrial identification of trade secrets is key, and litigants can find a road map for this in the Sedona Conference\u27s 2021 commentary on The Proper Identification of Asserted Trade Secrets in Misappropriation Cases. Zunum underscores the benefit of following that road map all the way through trial

The Role of Kenneth Kaunda’s Humanism in Fostering Higher Education for Social Responsibility in Post-colonial Zambia (1964-1991)

Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s first president from 1964 to 1991, advanced a Pan-African social-political ideology of humanism as a moral code to guide all human activities in the nation’s political, economic, and social spheres. Within education, humanism envisaged producing socially responsible and public good-oriented graduates equipped with humane values and capable of driving the national development agenda. This paper critically examines the nexus between Kaunda’s humanism and education by focussing on its role in fostering higher education for social responsibility in post-colonial Zambia. In addressing this, it focusses on the University of Zambia as a case study by drawing on secondary data sources through a systematic desktop review of related literature. It examines how the university endeavoured to produce socially responsible graduates in line with the national ideology of Zambian humanism. Situated within a post-colonial theoretical paradigm, the paper advances that Kaunda’s social-political thoughts on humanism offer an alternative framework for examining the role of higher education in fostering students’ social responsibility outcomes. In so doing, it contributes to the scholarship on human development and decoloniality in education. ________________