POLITICS in Zambia are rarely ever about issues. Every right-thinking Zambian knows that. Sometimes, however, political actors really go overboard with their politics. Name-calling, outright insults, and worse; messages deliberately crafted to deceive. Sadly, in a population with high illiteracy and gullibility, as Zambia, these kinds of politics find very fertile ground. Former president Edgar Lungu has left town on a clear mission to reintroduce himself back into the political arena. On his trip to Eastern Province, he spent time trying to incite people to cause loud noise to the government over the hunger situation. The former president was presenting the hunger situation to Petauke villagers as if they had not heard of it. He was acting as if the...