Bond, George Clement. "New Coalitions and traditional chieftainship in Northern Zambia: The Politics of Local government in Uyombe1." Africa, 45,no. 4 (1975): 348-362.

This paper looks at the persistence of traditional leadership as a basis of local government through the process of political change and of maintaining political boundaries between central government and other political units. The study sought to find out how the new form of traditional authority came about as a result of political change that produced a new party-based rural elite in Uyombe, a small chiefdom in the northern province of Zambia. The author argues that Zambia, just like other African countries lacked the financial strength to train personnel for civil service and rural institutions. Rural elites were recruited into the civil service along with educated urban elite. These rural elites, usually from smaller ethnic populations, were strategically given civil service posts which counteracted the regional and ethnic interests of the larger political units. Thus, these rural elites were able to leverage their bargaining power and gain temporary control of local government and transformed it into a more representative and effective unit of administration which was oriented toward rural economic development.

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