It is true that most desperate people resort to desperate means, to escape their desperation. Until life escapes our bodies, we humans have the capacity to manufacture infinite options to escape suffering, pain and death. […]

ONE ELDERLY woman was heard rebuking a young girl, saying, ‘Iwe, tawakwata mano. Uyu mwaume, ulemuchindika.’ (You silly girl, this is a boy, you must respect him). This is a true encounter and our good […]

NO DOUBT times are changing faster than we can keep pace with and before we realize it we may just be decades behind our own children. For example, most children spend more time watching TV […]

Zambia’s Copperbelt has been a centre of the world copper industry for almost a century. When mining began on an industrial scale in the 1920s, the mines employed both migrant white and African workers. By […]

My dearest young voter in Kabushi and Kwacha constituencies on the Copperbelt, I hope my letter will find you in reasonable good health and good mood. I am fine, and quite ashamedly, I must admit […]

Feeling rather bored and, frankly, quite irritated by all the loud noises about the Kabushi and Kwacha by–elections, I found myself wondering just how much the PF had reformed, rebranded and changed for the better, […]

It is such a horrible indictment on Zambia that 58 years after independence, it is the girl, whatever her age – who becomes pregnant – who forfeits her right to education, especially in our government […]

It is that our elections last year on the 12th of August, were a protest vote against the chronic hunger, extreme poverty, widespread unemployment, grotesque inequalities which are the conditions of more than 70 percent […]

Every journey has a destination, purpose and duration; the same applies to every project. A project is an intervention and before it chalks up any success, objectives and indicators must be set and baseline information […]

MANY PEOPLE, especially those who married in the 1950s and 60s had their spouses from their villages or regions closer to where they were brought up. Even those who were working in towns usually went […]