The Lozi are a people dwelling in west-central Zambia who established a stable kingdom adjacent to the Zambezi River. Owing to a number of agreements and concessions with the British in the 1890's which were later included in the constitution of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), the Lozi retained noticeably more autonomy than usual and, after the independence of Zambia in 1964, were a source of turbulence inasmuch as there was a movement afoot in Barotseland to secede from Zambia and re-establish the old Kingdom.