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Article: Zambia at the crossroads. (developing democracy)
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- World Affairs
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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From its position in Central-Southern Africa and with borders that are shared with eight other states, the butterfly-shaped country of Zambia lies at a geographnical crossroads. A large country of over 750,000 square kilometers, and relatively lightly populated with around eight-and-a-half million people, Zambia has frontiers with Angola to the northwest and, proceeding clockwise, with Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Botswana and, to the southwest, Namibia.
In the mid-1990s, Zambia is also approaching a political crossroads, both in terms of the kind of political system being established there and in terms of the ideology of political economy ...