Wisdom is an ability to use other peoples’ experiences and life lessons to improve our own experience through life. It is not in everybody’s interest to spread this kind of knowledge, however. The marketeer jealously guards the sources and prices of his merchandise in order to make a profit. The despot uses ignorance and fear…
Some Zambian children have never seen a dial phone. They use mobile phones. True. Some Zambian children have never seen a library, they use electronic book readers (ereaders). False. With regard to the telephone, Zambian children have leap-frogged into the future with mobile phones, skipping the dial phone. The same cannot be said…
On 5th November, the newly formed Mpelembe Drama Club performed an excerpt of the play currently in rehearsal, an adapation by Themba Daka of Woyengi, written by Obutunde Ijimeri. Woyengi is an African myth on creation. Woyenji is a goddess who creates her creatures then asks them to choose their fate before stepping into the world. The…
Senior Teacher, Chamboli Secondary School: September 1966 – November 1972 As the plane gradually lost height on its final approach to Ndola airport I could see the African bush beneath the plane’s wings, stretching away into the distance. As far as I could see there was nothing except a few trees and red earth together…
