Language in Zambia

Language in Zambia
Author: Sirarpi Ohannessian
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2017-09-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 135160516X

Originally published in 1978, this volume is divided into 3 parts. Part 1 presents an overview of the linguistic situation in Zambia: who speaks which languages, where they are spoken, what these languages are like. Special emphasis is given to the extensive survey of the languages of the Kafue basin, where extensive changes and relocations have taken place. Part 2 is on language use: patterns of competence and of extension for certain languages in urban settings, configurations of comprehension across language boundaries, how selected groups of multilinguals employ each of their languages and for what purposes, what languages are used in radio and television broadcasting and how decisions to use or not use a language are made. Part 3 involves language and formal education: what languages, Zambian and foreign, are used at various levels int he schools, which are taught, with what curricula, methods, how teachers are trained, how issues such as adult literacy are approached and with what success.

Speaking of Satan in Zambia

Speaking of Satan in Zambia
Author: Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps
Publisher: AOSIS
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2023-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1779952325

In this book, it is argued that narratives about Satanism, which have become popular in the Christian context of Zambia from the 1990s onwards, make cultural sense because of their links to traditional African notions as well as contemporary Christian theologies. These narratives also resonate with unease regarding the cultural change, which is connected by Zambians to modernity. Narratives about Satanism further make personal sense to their narrators, the pastors who provide a platform for them, and their audiences. These arguments contribute to the academic study of religion in Africa, in particular of African Christianity and of witchcraft-related phenomena, as well as to the global study of discourses on Satanism and other conspiracy theories. All of these disciplines are related to the topic of Satanism in Zambia, but the phenomenon itself has not been discussed at length, which makes the existing academic literature incomplete and inadequate. The comprehensive focus on the case of narratives about Satanism in Zambia offers new insights and enhances current theoretical reflection. The research presented in this book is original, carried out during fieldwork spanning from 2012 to 2017 in Zambia and literature study in the years after that. Methodologically, the research is based on participant observation in churches in which testimonies of ex-Satanists were presented, as well as participation in the Fingers of Thomas, a Roman Catholic group which investigates rumours about Satanism. Furthermore, it is based on interviews with pastors and students of theology active in the deliverance ministry from Pentecostal as well as mainline churches and also on interviews with people who have had experiences of Satanism. Finally, the research is based on an analysis of collected testimonies of ex-Satanists as they were presented in these interviews, in churches, on radio programmes, in newspapers and in other sources.

Bemba Speaking Women of Zambia in a Century of Religious Change

Bemba Speaking Women of Zambia in a Century of Religious Change
Author: Hugo F. Hinfelaar
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1994
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004101494

This book constitutes an important contribution to the study of religion in Africa as it traces the often painful changes that occurred among the Bemba-speaking women of Zambia since the arrival of the Western Missionaries. The author offers us his life-long search for the bed-rock of traditional religion as a basis for genuine cultural/religious development.

Politics in Zambia

Politics in Zambia
Author: William Tordoff
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0520320174

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Poverty and Health

Poverty and Health
Author: DAC Network on Poverty Reduction
Publisher: World Health Organization
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2003
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9241562366

Investment in health is a strategically important and often underestimated component of economic development. This study sets out a systematic approach to improving health in poor countries. For emerging countries, substantially improved health outcomes are a prerequisite to breaking out of the poverty cycle. This book on poverty and health, jointly published by the OECD and WHO, sets out the essential components of a broad-scope "pro-poor" health approach for action within the health system and beyond it. It is for development practitioners in the area of health issues.

Dead Aid

Dead Aid
Author: Dambisa Moyo
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0374139563

Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries.

Storytelling in Northern Zambia

Storytelling in Northern Zambia
Author: Robert Cancel
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1909254592

Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia and in many other communities across Africa. This innovative book provides a collection and analysis of oral narrative traditions as practiced by five Bemba-speaking ethnic groups in Zambia. The integration of newly digitalised audio and video recordings into the text enables the reader to encounter the storytellers themselves and hear their narratives. Robert Cancel's thorough critical interpretation, combined with these newly digitalised audio and video materials, makes Storytelling in Northern Zambia a much needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies that deal with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, reflexive description and simple documentation and succeeds in bringing to the reader a set of performers and their performances that are vivid, varied and instructive. He illustrates this living narrative tradition with a wide range of examples, and highlights the social status of narrators and the complex local identities that are at play. Cancel's study tells us not only about storytelling but sheds light on the study of oral literatures throughout Africa and beyond. Its innovative format, meanwhile, explores new directions in the integration of primary source material into scholarly texts. This book is the third volume in the World Oral Literature Series, developed in conjunction with the World Oral Literature Project.

Zambia

Zambia
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2003
Genre: Housing
ISBN:

DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Poverty and Health

DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Poverty and Health
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2003-04-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9264100202

This book on poverty and health, jointly published by the OECD and WHO, sets out the essential components of a broad-scope “pro-poor” health approach for action within the health system and beyond it. It is for development practitioners in the area of health issues.