Chipungu, S.N.

The accumulation from within: the boma class and the native authority treasury in colonial Zambia. - Lusaka : Dept. of History, 1989.

History seminar paper 1988/89.

The paper argues that native authority treasuries, a creation of British policy of indirect rule in Colonial Zambia (and British Africa), provided thematerial base for an emergent Boma class. It states that beneath the surface ofadministrative 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.


Financial Management.
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