Recently an article was published in which the deplorable state of young marriages in Zambia was highlighted. Zambia may have been the focus there but this is actually a representation of a global trend. Naturally […]

On a trip back from Uganda I met a man who was traveling to Tanzania to help run a branch of the family business. He had just turned thirty. He told me a story of […]

TAMARA Guhrs, niece to the late Judy Carr has described her fallen aunt as someone who was gifted with a combination of relationship building and diplomacy. And Cheswa Kaunda Silwizya, daughter to the first Republican […]

For so many of us, Things Fall Apart is one of the few fiction books that we have read. This is likely because it was part of the high school reading list – it had […]

(Episode One) It is surprising how individuals know certain facts of life, yet want to avoid talking about them even when it is clear that it is a possible destination for them. The subject of […]

I WAS not even in the top five for the school, so it came a bit as a surprise for me to learn that I was the best in the whole country at grade nine,... […]

ACCORDING to one scientific research, children inherit their cleverness from their mothers. The intelligence gene is supposedly linked to the X-chromosome and since women have two of these, there’s a greater possibility that they pass […]

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 […]

ON AVERAGE children take between 22-25 years to have completed school, college or university and become independent. And depending on how they had been brought up, some would leave the family home and start life […]