Culture, Entertainment, Getting Around, Things To Do
The Best of Zambian Music Volume 4. Two hours of non-stop Zambian pop music. Here’s the list of the 37 songs: Chishala – Pentagon Feat. B1 Walipusanako – Afunika Feat. Tiyamike Mandu – Mampi Feat. B1 So Beautiful – Macky 2 Ukangupa Lisa – ESPE Blue for Love – Kapansa Feat. Shenky Mbuyo ya Momma…
Adverbs of Place and Space Space and places are described using different adverbs. In some cases, more than one word is available. Where this is the case, the words are here separated by a coma. Examples show how the words can be used. In front, forward, before = Kuntanshi, Pantanshi She is standing in front of…
In this short video lesson, we will look at the way adjectives are used in Bemba, as compared to English. A noun is a part of a sentence that names a person, place, thing, idea, action or quality. Examples: Itaba = cob of maize Umuntu = person Kapenta = a type of small fish…
KITWE CHANGES What is Mutondo house now? Just in between the Kitwe Civic centre and ZIBSIP College, is a two-storey building laced with copper rails around its entrance. If you go further inside you would notice that all door handles are made of pure copper. Mutondo house was the name of this massive former ZCCM…
You probably don’t know what a PONG is because I just made the word up to describe an enhanced way of sharing our experiences using technology. This emerging phenomenon was not possible ten years ago. A PONG is a poem, song or story that consists of input from its writer, his collaborators AND each listener or reader…
Letters From a Retired Miner – 12 I want to talk about what happened one day when I went to visit my son in Kitwe. My son Bwembya has given me a granddaughter. Her name is Maria Fostina Bwembya. I am very proud of her. I was looking forward to seeing her with her brother…
REFLECTIONS LEADING TO MY LAST YEAR AT KITWE BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL 1964 Scholar occupation of the newly built school took place in 1957 with the then head master Mr J Hall. Initially the school was a co-education one, with building of the proposed Girls’ High School, next door, having been ‘completed’ in 1959 but it was only…
Precipitation is upon us Hoe in hand, turn soil upside down. Food security; we hope to acquire Precipitation is upon us, laziness a path to poverty. A good harvest we require, Precipitation is upon us. Hoe in hand, turn soil inside out.
My President lives! Unjust rhetoric unabated, Invalid news devalued. Up and down they hop. Adulterated verbal outbursts! But when he breathes! Lo and behold shall they scatter! My President lives! One by one, he shall batter Beat the drums! African sunset; blackened thoughts! Beckoned hope; a sunrise bright! My President awakes! Diminished talk, sacrilegious. We…
Akashi ushilala bakakumbwa umutenge. Emukutiila: Tekwesha ukulakumbwa in’ganda yabanobe nangula ubwikalo bwabo pantu tawaishiba ifyo baikala muli ilya ng’anda. Literal meaning: There are many people who admire other people’s lives not knowing that they also have got their own problems which may even be too hard as compared to them.(“The grass is always greener on…
