Next time you walk down the street, wherever you are, take a good look around you. You are watching history from a privileged front seat. The sights, sounds and smells around you are the ingredients of a historic time capsule. Someone down the line will look back one day, and wonder what it was like to walk where you are walking today.
Zambian Music Evolution
by JS •
Zambia, like the rest of Africa is a very musical society. There’s music for every occasion, be it recreation, work, weddings, birth, funerals, prayer or special occasions. When you multiply this by the 78 Zambian languages, you end up with a wide array of styles.
Chamboli Schools Re-visited
by JS •
Kitwe did not always have so many schools. In the early 1960s there was a shortage of primary and secondary schools….
Bemba Lesson 1 – Learn ici Bemba (Language) – Instructions
by JS •
As a tourist visiting the Copperbelt you can expect to come across someone who only speaks Bemba. Learning a new language is part of the excitement of traveling to new places and getting to interact and integrate with local people.
Windup Radio Inventor
by JS •
In 1993, Trevor watched a program about the spread of AIDS in Africa, which observed that in many regions radio was the only available means of communication, but the need for batteries or electricity made them too expensive or too difficult to access. There was a need for an educational tool that did not rely on electricity.
Trevor picked up on the word ‘need’. Need is the catalyst for an inventor’s ‘raison d’être’ and Trevor rose to the occasion.
Love Like the Rain
by JS •
It’s been a month from yesterday that I’ve been home from Africa.
In Africa, they use the word “now” in three different contexts
The word “now” means sometime between now and eternity.
“Just now” means sometime between now and the end of the day.
“Now now” means this moment.
Kitwe Musicians
by JS •
Kitwe has produced a lot of musicians over the years. We’ve had outstanding talent in jazz, pop, rhumba, hip-hop, religious, folk, world music and many more.
Kitwe in the News – Football
by JS •
BENJAMIN ‘Kawilo’ Chilongo has been handed the biggest job of his career to do what no coach has done for Nkana.
Ever since Nkana were first demoted in 2004, they have only been promoted once in 2008 but failed to stand the rigors in a Super Division in which they were once a revered force and notched up a record 11 league titles…………..
Kitwe in the News – Markets
by JS •
THE Kitwe City Council has finally started the process of allocating stands to marketeers in the newly-constructed European Union (EU) funded markets in the district.
Books about Africa – Dead Aid
by JS •
You’ve probably heard about Dambisa Moyo. She is an economist with interesting views about issues that affect Zambians, Africans and the world as a whole.
