Before western Europe became the core of the world economy, it started producing food surpluses which allowed for industrial specialisation which, in turn, provided automation of agricultural processes making people on the land redundant, and these people flocked to the new cities to take up jobs in urban-based industry. Huge amounts of food were then required for the populations of European cities who were no longer involved with food production. For this to hppen, new land ownership replaced land tenureship so that plots could be sold and large farms could be formed which, in turn could utilise technologies of automation.

It was to provide and preserve new resources and markets in Africa for European industry that colonialism delayed the same economic revolution in Africa and even today, the international financial institutions try to hold back developing countries from industrialisation. Thus, we have to go back to basics. Barotseland/Western Province must produce its own food, and process/preserve it so that it can be marketed around the region and farther afield in Zambia and elsewhere. When David Livingstone came to Bulozi, he recorded that this was the breadbasket of the region; it can be so again, releasing the economic potential referred to by Mutemwa, with the right political and economic conditions and the concerted effort of the people described by Katukula.