Dr. Friday Mulenga is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Historical and Archaeological Studies. He has published a number of research articles in journals, and book chapters and has presented research/ seminar papers both within and outside Zambia. Dr. Mulenga has also supervised research for undergraduate and postgraduate students. He has been teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Zambia since 1991. His research focuses on the history of workers (labour history) and on contemporary political and cultural history of Zambia, Africa and the World.
Academic Qualifications
2017: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) – History, University of Zambia.
1987: Master of Arts in History (MA – History) – University of Zambia.
1978: Bachelor of Arts with Education (BA-Ed.) – History Major, University of Zambia.
Book Chapters
Mulenga, F. E. "Fighting for Democracy of the Pocket: The Labour Movement in the Third Republic." In Jan-Bart Gewald, Marja Hinfelaar, and Giacomo Macola (Eds.), One Zambia, Many Histories: Towards a History of Post-Colonial Zambia (Leiden: Brill / Rotterdam: UNZA Press, 2008), pp. 241–258.
Mulenga, F. E. "Politics of the Belly: The Workers, Wages Policies and the Strike Regime in Zambia, 1964–2004." In Forty Years After Independence, 1964–2004 (Lusaka: Department of History, University of Zambia, 2006).
Journal Articles
Mulenga, F. E. "Rolling Stones: An Examination of the Implications for Democracy in Zambia of Defections, Resignation and Expulsions of Members from Political Parties." Zambia Journal of History, 1, 9 (2004), 136–177.
Mulenga, F. E. "'Kale twale ikala bwino' – Life was better in the old days" [Review of There Used to Be Order: Life on the Copperbelt after the Privatisation of the Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines by Patience Mususa]. Journal of Southern African Studies, 49, 1 (2023), 171–174.
ORCID ID: 0009-0004-6272-6402
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- History of workers in Zambia, Africa and beyond
- Contemporary politics in Zambia, Africa and beyond
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