^{Page 409 note 1} The best source on the politics of this period is Mulford, David, Zambia: the politics of independence, 1957–1964 (London, 1966).Google Scholar

^{Page 410 note 1} Calculated from provincial data contained in the First National Development Plan, 1966–1970 (Lusaka, 1966).Google Scholar

^{Page 412 note 1} Times of Zambia (Ndola), 26 02 1968.Google Scholar

^{Page 412 note 2} Zambia Mail (Lusaka), 6 12 1968.Google Scholar

^{Page 412 note 3} For an analysis of the December 1968 election, see Scott, Ian and Molteno, Robert, ‘The Zambian General Elections’, in Africa Report (Washington), 01 1969.Google Scholar

^{Page 413 note 1} Times of Zambia, 22 01 1968.Google Scholar

^{Page 414 note 1} Times of Zambia, 15 08 1968.Google Scholar

^{Page 414 note 2} ibid. 13 January 1969.

^{Page 414 note 3} Barotse Province also had an unusually large number of people who chose not to vote. The percentage poll in the ten contested constituencies in this Province ranged from to 55.6; in the remaining 67.7 contested constituencies in the whole of Zambia the lowest proportion of votes cast was 71 per cent.

^{Page 415 note 1} Scott and Molteno, op. cit.

^{Page 415 note 2} Annual Report of the Department of Labour, 1966 (Lusala), pp. 19 and 74.Google Scholar

^{Page 416 note 1} Tordoff, William, ‘District Government in Zambia’, in theJournal of Administration Overseas (London), 10 1968, P. 540.Google Scholar

^{Page 416 note 2} Times of Zambia, 24 October 1968.

^{Page 417 note 1} Wallerstein, Immanuel, ‘Elites in French-Speaking West Africa’, in The Journal of Modern African Studies, (Cambridge), III, I, 05 1965, pp. 1–33.Google Scholar

^{Page 417 note 2} Times of Zambia, 26 August 1968.

^{Page 418 note 1} Zolberg, Aristide R. has made a similar point in Creating Political Order: the party-states of West Africa (Chicago, 1966), pp. 19 and 22.Google Scholar

^{Page 419 note 1} Some observers of the political scene cite tribalism as a major causal factor in explaining the excesses of political competition in Africa. For a critique of the efficacy of tribalism in explaining recent political events in Nigeria, see Sklar, Richard L., ‘Contradictions in the Nigerian Political System’, in The journal of Modern African Studies, III, 2, 08 1965, pp. 201–13.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

^{Page 421 note 1} See Mulford, op. cit. pp. 150–9 and 211–28.

^{Page 422 note 1} Times of Zambia, 31 August 1967.

^{Page 422 note 2} The U.N.I.P. election results of August 1967 are reported and analysed by Rotberg, Robert I., ‘Tribalism and Politics in Zambia’, in Africa Report, 12 1967.Google Scholar