TODAY, American Vice-President Kamala Harris makes a historic visit to our country. This visit is historic to Zambia but it is probably more historic to this particular Vice-President because she is actually returning ‘home’. Reminiscent of former president Barack Obama’s trip to Kenya in 2015, or his first trip to that country in 1987, when he sought his father’s roots, Vice-President Harris is hoping she can connect with her childhood memories in Zambia. Harris lived in Lusaka at some point in her early life. Her and her sister spent time in Zambia in the late 1960s at a house along Independence Avenue which the American Embassy has made efforts to locate. Although she was just over five years old at...

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