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5 Major centralized societies in Zambia: main features

Earlier in our post we talked about the decentralised societies. Let us now explore the Major centralized societies in Zambia: main features

• Societies led by a king or a chief are called centralized societies.
• Examples of centralized include : the Bemba, luyi and lunda, the chewa and the Ngoni.

Characteristics of the centralized societies in Zambia

• They had one supreme hereditary ruler at a time and under him were several sub-chiefs and headmen
• They had well-established social institutions such as clans and lineages.
• They had a well established cultural institutions
• The supreme ruler acted as the father to the people and made decisions on behalf of all the people.
• Each society had special royal objects used in coronations and other cultural ceremonies.
• The supreme leader also served as the chief priest during major tribal religious ceremonies
• The sub chiefs had to be installed only after the approval of the supreme ruler.

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