ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the difference in response of villages in the Gwembe Valley in the Southern Province of Zambia. It examines the reasons why the two villages have developed their particular modes of life. The chapter considers the adaptive responses of each village since resettlement, as well as the consequences for the villagers of their different modes of attachment to the modern economy. The major differences between Mazulu and Musulumba have developed since the resettlement of Gwembe Tonga in advance of the formation of Lake Kariba. The sites allocated to the two villages differed in agricultural potential and access to local wage labour, a circumstance which further encouraged the bias of each village. Unlike the Mazulu villagers who move between their town foci and the village, Musulumba villagers who have moved to the railway line are scattered here and there, one family to a town, each making its own way.
