MINISTER of Sport, Youth and Arts Elvis Nkandu yesterday made a statement so candid it borders on scandalous honesty. Honourable Nkandu said politicians are potential mental health patients. He was speaking at Chainama Hills Hospital, but if you squint, he might as well have been diagnosing the entire political class from the comfort of his ministerial chair. And if there were ever a profession tailor-made for stress, delusion, and post-office trauma, it is indeed Zambian politics. While the minister’s remarks may have been made as a joke, he might be on to something. Politics in Zambia fosters a sort of selective amnesia where one moment someone is the son or daughter of Kanyama or Mtendere, greeting neighbours with a wave,...