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Zambia Library Association Journal Vol 24, I 2,2009 Management of Public Sector Records and Archives in Zambia: The Past, Present and the Future Chrispin Hamooya company. In 1899, the North-Western Rhodesia Order in Council was passed which formally established the administration and Abstract gave ~tatutory rights to the Company. The BSAC amalgamated. North- Western The aim ofthispaper is to review the records Rhodesia with North-Eastern Rhodesia to management practices obtaining in Zambia form Northern Rhodesia in 1911. The from the colonialperiod topresent times. It is amalgamation of the two administration and being pointed out that during the pre- departments in North -Eastern Rhodesia and colonial era, records management was crude North- Western Rhodesia was meant to be a in nature as it relied on the word ofmouth . cost saving measure. The colonial masters inherited this kind of management but introduced the written word thus the management of records had to Traditional records management