Northern Rhodesia
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Northern Rhodesia ( English Northern Rhodesia ) was a British protectorate formed in 1911 in southern central Africa , which gained its independence as Zambia in 1964 . Northern and Southern Rhodesia are named after Cecil Rhodes , Prime Minister of the Cape Colony , who took possession of these areas for the British Crown in 1891 under a treaty of protection .
The British South Africa Company of Rhodes had made Northwest Rhodesia and Northeast Rhodesia separately into protectorate areas of the society through treaties with rulers of the Lozi as well as the Bemba and Chewa . In 1911 they were placed under common administration as Northern Rhodesia. In 1924 the state took over sovereignty and ruled the country from then on as a British protectorate .
The mining and smelting of copper began in 1931 in Kapiri Mposhi, which is adjacent to the later Copperbelt . After a setback in the Great Depression , he was accepted on a large scale with migrant workers from Tanganyika . From 1935 onwards, there were repeated mass strikes by black miners and ironworkers in the Copperbelt, and later the first free trade unions , the African Mineworkers Union (AMU), the African workforce. Like-minded people founded in 1948 by Harry Nkumbula the party of the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress .
In 1953 the two Rhodesia were united with Nyassaland , now Malawi , to form the Central African Federation . a. by the resistance of the ANC, strongly supported the Tonga in the South, and the newly formed, more energetic, more on the northern Bemba -based United National Independence Party (UNIP) under Kenneth Kaunda in 1963 dissolved. The country received internal autonomy . Kaunda won the elections with his UNIP and became president.
Northern Rhodesia was granted independence as Zambia on October 24, 1964 under its last governor Sir Evelyn Hone .
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Coordinates: 14 ° S , 28 ° E