Bizeck Jube Phiri is professor of history, founding chief editor of the Journal of Humanities (UNZA), Member of New Contre Journal (South Africa) and is on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Southern African Studies (JSAS). He has published several books and journal articles in international peer-reviewed journals. Most importantly he has taught at the University of Zambia for thirty-nine years and is therefore well acquainted with the developments that have taken place at UNZA.

Thokozile Shaba is a part-time lecturer in the Department of Historical and Archaeological Studies at the University of Zambia. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis on politics and political violence in Zambia.

Editor's Foreword Jon Woronoff

Preface to the Forth Edition, Bizeck Jube Phiri

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Map

Chronology

Introduction

THE DICTIONARY

Bibliography

About the Authors

Historical Dictionary of Zambia, Fourth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country's politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.