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Burial for Dead Fish

A fish nick-named “Two Tone” believed to be Britain’s biggest native fresh water fish, , was found dead and floating in Conningbrook Lake, Ashford, Kent.

Kitwe Poetry Corner – Barney Kanjela

Barney Kanjela is one of Zambia’s most prolific literary heavy weights. The author of many scripts that have been translated into plays and performed in different countries. He is one of the forces behind Kitwe Poetry Corner.
Barney’s poem of the week is entitled CHANGES.

What Does The Future Hold For African Football After This Year’s World Cup? – Part 1

With the FIFA World Cup of 2010 almost concluded many will be turning their attentions to assessing the performances of the African hopes from this year’s competition and whether there were enough encouraging signs for the future of African football as a whole. In this the first part of a two part series we review each of the six competing African teams and how their performances may have affected football in their respective nations moving forward into the future.

Tourist Destinations from Kitwe

Why travel to Zambia? First off, the safaris are awesome! You may also want to see the Victoria Falls, the world’s largest water fall on the wild Zambezi, Africa’s fourth largest river. How about the teeming wildlife in pristine wilderness and 749 recorded bird species? There’s also the endemic lechwe antelopes, the rare shoebill stork, the only reservoir of Thornicroft giraffes, and the big five (lion, leopard, buffalo, hippo and elephant) in the national parks.

Poetry Corner Launches in Kitwe

In a quiet corner of Kitwe Little Theatre, one by one they stood up to recite their poems. These are members of Poetry Corner which was launched at Kitwe Little Theatre on Friday, 18th June, 2010. Lydia Mhango, the Co-ordinator of the group explained that Poetry Corner aims to encourage poetry writing and reading in Kitwe.