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Alcohol, Racial Segregation and Popular Politics in Northern Rhodesia*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

Charles Ambler
Charles Ambler
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University of Texas at El Paso
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Historians who have studied the rise of African opposition to colonialism in Northern Rhodesia have concentrated largely on the development of political parties and their campaigns for political rights. This paper explores some of the social and cultural elements of the popular movement against British rule through an examination of challenges to restrictions on the production and consumption of alcoholic beverages. In Northern Rhodesia as in much of British-ruled east, central and southern Africa, the colonial government banned the consumption by Africans of all European-type alcoholic drinks and placed tight restrictions on the brewing and sale of grain beers. In the immediate postwar period racially discriminatory alcohol regulations emerged as a highly emotional issue and remained so despite liberalization of the restrictions on beer and wine. But the focus of popular anger was the municipal grain beer monopolies and attempts on the part of the authorities to stamp out an illegal beer trade conducted by women brewers. Beginning in the mid-1950s this anger erupted in a series of protests and boycotts directed against municipal beerhalls. The protesters, many of whom were women, opposed the exclusion of Africans from a potentially lucrative sector of trade as well as the supposedly immoral and degrading characteristics of the beerhalls. Examination of the struggle over the beerhalls illuminates some of the diverse and contradictory sources and objectives of popular political expression during this period and in particular sheds light on the interplay among issues of race, class and gender in the nationalist movement.

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Politics in the Late Colonial Period
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The Journal of African History , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , July 1990 , pp. 295 - 313
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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112 Ibid. M. Adams (District Commissioner), 225.

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114 Ibid. A. Black (municipal official), 2079; and Northern News, 1 Aug. 1963.

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117 Zambia Times (U.N.I.P. paper), 14 May 1963, in 1963 Copperbelt Commission, Memoranda.

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119 Ester Banda quoted in Northern News, 31 Aug. 1963.

120 Northern Rhodesia, Ministry of Local Government, ‘Local authority liquor undertakings’, Circular 5/64, 11 April 1964. All bars were opened to Africans on 19 July 1963, Northern News, 20 July 1963. Whites attempted, however, to maintain segregation in private clubs. ‘Rhokana Club membership—multiracial aspect (strictly confidential)’, 3 Dec. 1964, NCCM/HO 525; and anonymous interview by author, Lusaka Club, 17 June 1988.

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