During and after the European colonization of Africa, Rhodesia (Cecil Rhodes’s strange political project) underwent a number of different territorial changes - the most significant being the split into Northern and Southern Rhodesia. But off on the western border of Rhodesia, the Kingdom of Barotseland was given even greater autonomous status within the colony as a British protectorate, an autonomy that was guaranteed, by the Barotseland Agreement 1964, to continue after Zambia (and Zimbabwe) gained independence in the 1960s. Alas, it was never implemented, and a kingdom with centuries of a tied history to a culturally significant land was subsumed into Zambia and any calls for independence (or even adherence to BA1964) have been and continue to be deemed treasonous by the Zambian government.
Stamp details: Issued in: 2013 From: Mongu, Barotseland Colnect #2013-BL01
Recognized as a sovereign state by the UN: No Claimed by: Republic of Zambia Member of the Universal Postal Union: No
