Terence Ranger is a prominent African historian, focusing much of his work on the colonial History of Zimbabwe. Much of his work was conducted in the 1960s and 70s, as part of the post-colonial generation of historians. One of his famous works was collaboration with Eric Hobsbawm called The Invention of Tradition. The following is an outline of African history, followed by a list of articles about the history of particular places in Africa. ... In general, the word colonial means of or relating to a colony. In United States history, the term Colonial is used to refer to the period before US independence. ... This is the History of Zimbabwe. ... Eric Hobsbawm (born June 9, 1917) is a British historian and author, earlier the leading theoretician of the now defunct Communist Party of Great Britain. ...
To borrow TerrenceRanger's phrase, kuomboka is an "invented tradition.''(23) It is a continually inventive tradition.
In both his original discussion of invention in Africa, and his insightful revisitation of the same theme, Ranger focuses upon the interplay between colonial forces and colonized Africans.(24) Ranger uses the Lozi, and kuomboka, to illustrate the process of invention during the colonial era.
While I would agree with Terence Ranger that ethnic terminology was developed to differentiate as well as consolidate subjects, neither contemporary issues of ethnic consciousness nor explanations of ethnic terms reaches to what I would call a part to whole identity interchange.(29) An Mbunda presence in Barotseland is Lozi.
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