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- ItemThe 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.
- ItemLanguage, 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.
- ItemMissionaries, 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).
- ItemStrange 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
- ItemFrom 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