Neglected but Not Forgotten: Jews and Nation Building in the Zambian Public Sphere Through the Life Trajectory of Cynthia Sarah Zukas
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The article explores the life trajectory of Cynthia Sarah Zukas by reflecting on her contributions as a Jewish woman to nation building in order to mirror the often-neglected roles of the Jews in Zambian scholarship. An interpretive qualitative case study design is employed because the intention is to capture and understand the unique contributions of a Jewish woman in post independence Zambia. Data was collected through document and content analysis in the form of newspaper articles, magazines, and photographs and was thematically analyzed. It was established that after independence, the country’s Jewish community dwindled, thus Zukas’ family was one of the seven Jewish families still living in Zambia. Driven by her experiences of social injustice, Zukas supported the liberation struggle, and contributed towards rebuilding the newly independent Zambia by integrating both black and white Zambians in the Lusaka Art Society. Other than serving on the board of the National Museum and National Arts Council, her contributions were through paintings and prints depicting expressions of urban life such as transport and essential commodity shortages typified by citizens, more often women and children in long queues. Seen through the prism of religion as a resource, the life trajectory of Cynthia Zukas demonstrated that contrary to the portrayal of women in religion as being oppressed, jobless and alienated from the pulpit, religion was resource for nation building and that women were agents of nation building in their own communities and beyond.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".