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Western Zambia
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The Lozi are identified as a people whose pre-colonial political and cultural identity had been consolidated before colonial rule. Their established identity, like that of the Asante and Ganda, carried distinct privileges that were defended within the colonial order.
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The Lozi are presented as an example of a people whose collective identity was already politically and culturally consolidated before the colonial period. This places them among groups that did not simply emerge from modern administrative classifications or post-war political mobilization.
The passage associates this established identity with distinct privileges that had to be defended within the colonial order. Ethnic organization consequently involved both the preservation of inherited political status and the adaptation of older identities to new institutions.
The Lozi example supports the wider argument that African ethnic identities had varied historical foundations. Some rested on earlier political formations, while others were shaped by missions, colonial divisions, migration, or competition over state resources.
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Western Zambia
Traduction non disponible · Original (anglais) · français indisponible
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Le récit
The Lozi are presented as an example of a people whose collective identity was already politically and culturally consolidated before the colonial period. This places them among groups that did not simply emerge from modern administrative classifications or post-war political mobilization.
The passage associates this established identity with distinct privileges that had to be defended within the colonial order. Ethnic organization consequently involved both the preservation of inherited political status and the adaptation of older identities to new institutions.
The Lozi example supports the wider argument that African ethnic identities had varied historical foundations. Some rested on earlier political formations, while others were shaped by missions, colonial divisions, migration, or competition over state resources.