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    From an Agency of Cultural Destruction to an Agency of public Health
    (Kininklijke Brill NV, 2014) Kalusa, Wilima T.
    Most medical histories maintain that missionary doctors in imperial Africa were agents of western cultural imperialism .This paper ,informed by the writings of Michel Foucault,projects mission based healers as agents of imperial power who played a major role in emasculating African therapeutic systems and in reinforcing colonial hegemony
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    An Historical Analysis of Vulnerability and Resiliencein a Semi-Arid Region of Zambia
    (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), 2009-12) Siamwiza, Bennett Siamwiinde
    This article is about the Valley Tonga’s resilience to ecological vulnerability ofteninduced by near chronic drought conditions that have, over centuries, characterised theirregion and occasionally by flooding of the Zambezi; prior to 1958 and of Lake Karibaafter 1958. The Valley Tonga are the inhabitants of the Gwembe Valley, a troughsandwiched by unbroken range of escarpments on the south and north of the Zambeziriver. The valley located in the middle Zambezi River basin in Southern Province ofZambia. Since long time ago, this region has been subject to hunger and famine largelybecause of its semi – arid nature. The article explores the various mechanisms the ValleyTonga have applied and exploited to survive their unfriendly environment. The article suggests that the Tonga’s resilience has largely depended on their ability toforecast good and bad weather patterns ahead. This ability to interpret climatic changes oftheir environment has enabled them to prepare ahead of an expected negativeeventualities. The Valley Tonga, the article explains, have remained in the valley despitechronic environmental setbacks, often leading to food crises, for several reasons. Thebush has been a granary as it has provided them with food in bad and even good times.They have also managed to live in the environment, outsiders have perceived asnotorious, because they have cultivated economic and social networks based on the moraleconomy paradigm. The valley Tonga have exploited even seemingly negativeoccurrences such as disastrous floods to their advantage; receding flood regime createdan opportunity for winter or dry crop cultivation. The introduction of colonial regime atthe turn of the twentieth century, added yet another dimension to the Tonga’s survivalstrategies. Labour migration, colonial intervention through famine relief and introductionof commercial and fishing upon the formation of Lake Kariba became a source of theirresilience to ecological shocks
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    Language, medical auxilliaries and the re-interpretation of missionary medicine in colonial, Mwinilunga, Zambia,1922-51.
    (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2007) Kalusa, Wilima T.
    Through an examination of the concepts used by lunda speaking auxiliaries to translate mission medicine at the hospital run by the Christian Missions to many Lands in Mwinilunga from 1922-1951,this article argues that auxiliaries translated missionary medicine in ways missionaries could imagine nor control.
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    Missionaries, african patients and negotiating Missionary medicine at Kalene hospital, Zambia,1906-1935.
    (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2014) Kalusa, Wilima T.
    This article insists that scholarship informed by the dominance-resistance debate obfuscates how missionary healers and their Africa interlocutors minimized their ontological differences on healing so that each party incorporated idioms and practices from each others medical system(s).
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    The politics of the corpse : president Levy Mwanawasa's death, funeral and political contestation in post-colonial Zambia.
    (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017) Kalusa, Wilima T.
    Informed by recent scholarship that underscores the centrality of death ,corpse and funerals in contemporary African politics,this article explores the ways in which the actors in the ruling movement for multi-party Democracy (MMD) and the opposition Patriotic Front (PF) in Zambia appropriated the corpse and legacy of president levy Mwanawasa to mobilize political support in 2008.
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    RES/MLS Archive 1
    (2011-11-14) Musambachime, Mwelwa
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    Strange bedfellows:David Livingstone,Sekeletu,imported goods,and the 1853-1856 trans-African expedition
    (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2015) Kalusa, Wilima T.
    This article explores the conflicting meanings of the trans-African expedition undertaken between 1853 and 1856 by colonial explorer David Livingstone ,with the support of the African monarch Sekeletu,the young king