POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN ZAMBIA

#civiceducation #centreforelites #zambianpolitics #politicsinzambia This video explains how the British or European missionaries came to Zambia between the 1870s and 1880s following the travels and reports of Dr Livingstone in the previous decades with the intention of colonizing the area in order to exploit its rich mineral resources of copper or coal. Their reports aroused interest from trade and many other missionaries. It began to be colonized when European miners and developers moved in as a result of a Lonchner concession of 1890. The British divided the area into northern western Rhodesia and north eastern Rhodesia. North western Rhodesia came under the direct rule of British South Africa Company (BSA) 1895. North Eastern Rhodesia only came under British rule in 1897 because many African tribes such as the Bemba, Ngoni, Lunda, and Arab Swahili, fought against the British administration. The BSA combined north eastern and north western Rhodesia in 1911 to form northern Rhodesia. The BSA Company’s concern was to exploit minerals and administer the territory by taxing the African people on behalf of the British government. They traded with African chiefs and drew up treaties to grant themselves mineral rights. The colonial system under BSAC and the British segregated the races and was much more restrictive to the blacks than to the whites. For more information Visit our blog at: https://support.centreforelites.com/political-development-in-zambia-in-4-points/