Zambia: Political overview
The political background to contemporary Zambia is periodised as follows:
- Stone Age to the Iron Age
- Migrations and state formation (1480-1890)
- Early British colonialism (1899-1945)
- Rise of African Nationalism (1945-1964)
- Emergence of the mixed economy and one-party state (1964-1974)
- Escalating economic and political crisis (1975-1991)
- Presidency of Chiluba (1991-2001)
- Presidency of Mwanawasa (2002-2005)
