A History of Zambia by Andrew Roberts 

This is the history of the territory which in 1964 became the independent state of Zambia. It was not until the 19th Century that this territory became the British colony of Northern Rhodesia. Its frontiers, like so many colonial territories, bore little relation to previous political, economic or social divisions.
In 1953 Northern Rhodesia became part of the Central African Federation. One of the few unqualified achievements of this experiment was the development of a National Archives service. This sponsored the first comprehensive study of the country’s colonial history.
The book also deals with the country’s first 10 years of independence.

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