Prof. Sitwala Imenda : Zambia’s Denial of Barotseland’s Right to Self Determination
Barotseland has had a special status as a sovereign state in southern Africa for hundreds of years. Internationally, Barotseland’s existence as a State was recognized by the King of Italy, in an arbitration award of 1905 concerning the Anglo‐Portuguese Barotse Boundary dispute, and most legal scholars today, such as James Crawford, recognize Barotseland as a classic example of a sovereign to which “the general rules of international law were applied,”…