ABSTRACT
In examining the historical background of educational development in Northern Rhodesia — now Zambia — it is necessary to go back to 1885 when Francis Coillard established the first permanent mission station at Sesheke in Barotseland. During the following forty years, the number of mission stations increased steadily and by 1925 no less than sixteen had entered the education field. Long before this time, of course, David Livingstone had blazed a trail of missionary enterprise in Central Africa.
