ON the same day that our Chief Justice Mumba Malila delivered a poignant diagnosis of the habits and factors hindering our development, our politicians gave us an epic episode of “Mastering the Art of Petty Unproductive Politics”. Plotted around the memorial marking the tenth anniversary of President Michael Sata’s death, the political foolery resulted in two services happening simultaneously at two different churches. This is because a group of people felt they were closer to Michael Sata and knew what he would want or respect than his immediate family, and that only they can properly represent and preserve his memory as he would have wanted. They pretty much claimed ownership of his memory, as members of the party he founded....