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Acknowledgements The main contents of this book derive from a doctoral thesis presented to London University in 1969. In the acknowledgements section of the thesis my academic obligations are fully stated and demonstrated. I would, however, like to reiterate here my thanks to Dr. Eric Stokes of St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and to Professor Roland Oliver of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, who were my supervisors. My thanks also go to Dr. Richard Gray, Dr. David Birmingham, Mr. Anthony Atmore of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University; to Professor Omer-Cooper and Dr. Andrew Roberts of the University of Zambia; and to Mr. Richard Brown of the University of Sussex, with whom I had valuable chapter discussions. Finally I would like to express my thanks and appreciation to Professor Terence Ranger currently of the History Department, University of California, who firstsuggestedtheideaof researchtome. In my search for written sources I have been assisted by many people in Archives and Libraries; I owe special thanks for help with missionary archives (in French) to M. Kruger in Paris, Rev. J. P. Burgerand MissGraziellaJalla. RelatingtooralsourcesI haveaverygreatobligationtothepeople of Bulozi and particularly to my informants who are too many to mention here but are identified individually in the bibliography. I owe thanks to the members of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in Bulozi and Mulena Mukwae Makwibi of Nalolo who on severaloccasionsprovided mewithtransportandaccommodation. xv In this connection I also thank the Rhodes Livingstone Institute (now the Institute forAfrican Studies, Universityof Zambia) forthe use of their vehicle and field-work equipment and the United National Independence Party for providing me with an excellent driver, Mr.WamulumeMwikisa. IowethankstoJoseph KalilaKelekwaforhisuntiring helpduring the periods of collecting oral tradition in Bulozi; and also to Miss RitaSharpefortranslatingmaterialfromtheFrench. Financially, my thanks go to the then University College of Rhodesiaand Nyasalandwhosupported meinthefirststagesof this work in 1964, to the Rockefeller Foundation who financed myyear's research at Cambridge University in 1964-5, and to my husband Theodore Bull who financed the rest of my research when I registered with London University. Finally, the revision of my thesis was made possible by a generous grant from the University of Zambia. Acknowledgements xvi ...

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