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The accumulation from within: the boma class and the native authority treasury in colonial Zambia.
By: Chipungu, S.N.
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BookPublisher: Lusaka : Dept. of History, 1989Subject(s): Financial Management | Northern Rhodesia -- Indirect Rule. -- Northern Rhodesia -- Indirect RuleSummary: The paper argues that native authority treasurers, a creation of British policy of indirect rule in Colonial Zambia (and British Africa), provided the material base for an emergent Boma class. It states that beneath the surface of administrative responsibility to generate revenue for the colonial government,lay a process of capital accumulation which became manifest in increased cases of financial indiscipline and irregularities in native authorities by the close of the colonial era.
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History Seminar Paper 1988/89.
The paper argues that native authority treasurers, a creation of British policy of indirect rule in Colonial Zambia (and British Africa), provided the material base for an emergent Boma class. It states that beneath the surface of administrative responsibility to generate revenue for the colonial government,lay a process of capital accumulation which became manifest in increased cases of financial indiscipline and irregularities in native authorities by the close of the colonial era.
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