TODAY, Zambia joins the rest of the continent in commemorating Africa Freedom Day, a day set aside to honour the men and women who stood up against colonial domination and demanded that Africa must be free. It is a day for remembering the sacrifices of our founding fathers and mothers; those who endured prison, exile, torture, humiliation and death so that Africans could govern themselves. But as we celebrate, we must also ask ourselves a painful question: are we truly free, or have we merely replaced colonial rule with new forms of colonialism? When we speak of “colonialism without colonial rule” we are referring to the contradiction of the modern Africa. The colonial governor may have left. The Union Jack...