Northern Rhodesia

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1. Northern Rhodesia - Noun

2. Northern Rhodesia - Proper noun

Meaning

a republic in central Africa; formerly controlled by Great Britain and called Northern Rhodesia until it gained independence within the commonwealth in 1964

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“1964 – Zambia, formerly the British colony of Northern Rhodesia, holds its first election. Source: Internet

Etymology further The territory of what is now Zambia was known as Northern Rhodesia from 1911. Source: Internet

In 1923, the BSA Company ceded control of Northern Rhodesia to the British Government after the government decided not to renew the Company's charter. Source: Internet

The History of Central and Eastern Africa, Amy McKenna, 2011, pg. 9 In the 1890s the province was beleaguered by Cecil Rhodes from the South (Rhodes has colonized Northern Rhodesia) and the Belgian Congo which was owned by King Leopold II. Source: Internet

In 1931 he compiled The Lambas of Northern Rhodesia, which remains one of the outstanding ethnographic descriptions of the peoples of Central Africa. Source: Internet

Northern Rhodesia became the Republic of Zambia on 24 October 1964, with Kenneth Kaunda as the first president. Source: Internet

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