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KUMWESU, meaning OUR PLACE, is a half-hour lifestyle and entertainment magazine program that showcases the African lifestyle from across the continent. The aim of KUMWESU is to inform, entertain and update viewers on the new young emerging Africa, a continent driven by our ever growing entertainment, tourism and business industries. We cover major events such…
Let us build us a website. Kitwe City Council (KCC) has got a website that is up and running, Kitwe City Council. This is a welcome development. The site is not running at 100% yet, but if you go and have a look, you will see that it promises to provide a lot of useful…
.. .. MEET BECKY “God has blessed me,” says Rabecca. She is 23 years old, married and recently had her first baby. She is the youngest in a family of 8 siblings. She lost both parents while quite young and has worked hard to get to where she is today. She spent her childhood in…
Nkana East and Ndeke Village communities have always lived apart yet the distance between the two communities is a mere one kilo metre and six hundred metres. The communities are separated by the railway line and two streams. One stream runs close to houses along Mwenda Street from the foot of the tailings dam in…
.. .. MEET Kutemba Muchima Kutemba Muchima, born from Obed Julaki Muchima and Joyce Mwangu Muchima on the 14th July 1983, is the second last born in a family she can only describe as a tree with branches. With her biological parents deceased, she says God has blessed her with a second set of parents…
.. .. Meet SARAH KAKENE Sarah was born on 24th December 1989. She is a strong Christian girl and belongs to the Reformed Church of Zambia. She is a product of Kabulonga Girls High School. Sarah works as an Accountant at Wimpy in Kitwe, and her motto at work is: “To be an effective team…
Mwanjitile Akale (You Called Me Long Ago) – by Suwilanji CHORUS Mwanjitile akale You called me long ago Lesa uwaluse, iseni munkakule Merciful Lord, come and deliver me Umweo wandi waliluba mufyesonde My soul is lost in worldly ways Isuleni amenso yandi ayakumupashi Open my spiritual eyes (Repeat x 2) 1. Naipela, naileta kuli imwe…
Do you know the link between Kapenta and the Copperbelt province of Zambia? Kapenta is a popular small, silvery fresh water lake fish. It is also a name with an interesting history. The name Kapenta was coined by miners on the Copperbelt to describe two closely related species of Lake Tanganyika fresh water fish –…
.. .. Meet ELIZABETH KAMINSA I work for Kitwe City Council as a Community Development Officer. I have been with the Council for four years. I love my work because I enjoy working with people. I am pursuing a degree in Social Work and Development with University of Africa, which I am due to complete…
Mwaiseni (Welcome) Welcome = Mwaiseni As discussed in Lesson 8 – Learn How to Read and Pronounce Bemba Words, the Bemba language uses the same letters of the alphabet as English. Before learning to make sentences in Bemba, you need to know about the building blocks. This lesson covers Vowels Special vowel sounds (Double vowels)…
