Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B.
White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of
the literary essay situates the familiar at the heart of the essay
as form. This book transforms our understanding of the recent
political history of Central Africa. It charts the complex life and
thought of Harry Nkumbula (ca. 1917-1983), the first openly
nationalist African politician in Northern Rhodesia and, later, the
leader of parliamentary opposition during Zambia's multi-party
First Republic. Based mainly on his personal papers and the newly
opened archives of UNIP, Zambia's ruling party between 1964 and
1991, the volume looks at how Nkumbula imagined a Zambian nation
for the first time and, later, presented a liberal alternative to
dominant state-led models of political and economic development. By
exploring the trajectory of Nkumbula's ANC, a minority liberal
party with strong ethnic roots, the book throws new light on the
under-acknowledged fractiousness of Zambian nationalism and warns
against reading African post-colonial politics solely in terms of
clientelism.
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