Part I. Tears of Rain : Ethnicity and history IN CENTRAL WESTERN ZAMBIA Chapter 1. The contemporary point of departure: The Nkoya-speaking people and their chiefs Chapter 2. The Likota lya Bankoya manuscript Chapter 3. Historical criticism of Likota lya Bankoya Chapter 4. State formation in central western Zambia as depicted in Likota lya Bankoya Chapter 5. State and society in nineteenth-century central western Zambia:Chapter 6. Likota lya Bankoya as cosmology and as history: Aspects of Nkoya symbolism and its transformations Part II. Likotalya Bankoya :Part III. The history of the Nkoyapeople Part IV . Reference Material