By Jacques Julliard
Nous croyons et nous ne croyons pas, voilà notre malheur. Catholique et athée depuis toujours, l. a. France est en outre socialiste et individualiste, toujours prête à voter pour un avenir radieux, dans l'intime conviction qu'il n'adviendra jamais. Nous sommes les schizophrènes de l'Occident. Et nous n'avons guère envie de guérir.
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Roughly speaking, Protestantism gained a greater foothold in the western part of the country and Roman Catholicism in the east. For example, French Protestants had established a mission at Sefula, a Lozi town, in 1886. 5 The French were also active in eastern Zambia, where French missionaries of the Roman Catholic White Fathers founded a mission among the Mambwe people in 1891. A mission in Bembaland was founded in 1895 as Roman Catholicism became a major influence in what is now Northern Province.
Kaunda himself was imprisoned, but he emerged from prison in 1960 as the leader of the newly established United National Independence Party (UNIP). Because of its history of relatively milder racial policies than other settler societies, domestic unrest in Zambia prompted constitutional negotiations, endorsed by Britain, rather than violence as in Southern Rhodesia. Constitutional negotiations took place in 1961–62, although the actual transfer to majority rule did not occur until more than two years later.
4. Fomunyoh, “Democratization in Fits and Starts,” 37–50. 5. 9 billion in debt relief in 2001 and a comparable amount in early 2006. 2 Religion and Worldview Zambia is a religiously plural environment that includes both world religions, such as Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism, as well as traditional practices. The vast majority of its population, however, practices various denominations of Christianity. Christianity arrived in the country in the mid-nineteenth century but did not establish a solid foothold in the country until the early twentieth century as missionary activity proliferated in conjunction with the establishment of colonial control over the territory.