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Written by Chishala
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On October the 24th 2001, Zambia celebrates her 37th birthday, but much of the razzle-dazzle that marked many an Independence Day of yesteryear, is now sadly lacking. In fact, to the young, Independence Day is more synonymous with Will Smith killing aliens than political movements for uhuru. |
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Written by Chishimba Kanyanta
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One keen observation I have made is, that to the best of my knowledge, no African Nation has ever elevated a woman to the venerated position of Head of State. One must step back and wonder why, with women occupying the majority in the population of ‘most every African country how long are women to continue to roam the peripheral corridors of power? Speaking frankly, I have in the past only scorned at nations who would elect a female head of state, unless she was made of remarkable character uncommon in men of our generation. |
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Written by Nalumino Robertson
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What's in a name? Is there any problem with mine?! In all my 26 years on the planet, I've only ever known of one Caucasian, who has an African first name given to him at birth by his parents. His name is Mulenga. Mulenga is the Bemba translation for artist. Beautiful name: in fact someone should have told the Artist Formerly Known as Prince about the name Mulenga, when he was in that indecisive period about a name to use because "Mulenga The Artist" is better than that funny looking symbol which he eventually settled on! After discussing this notion with some colleagues of color at work, I have learnt of two other cases, of Caucasians with African names. One is an elderly woman who is named Moya (which means air). Hers and Mulengas are very isolated instances, aren't they?
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Written by Chilu Lemba
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An American journalist named Henry Stanley at some point in the latter part of the nineteenth century said the following four words, "Dr Livingston, I presume". Why is it that such a seemingly simple statement would be indelibly carved into modern history? The strength of this statement lays in the fact that it symbolizes a journalist's courage and determination to overcome one of the greatest challenges of his era: distance. As you are well aware, this Henry Stanley guy wrote articles for one of the newspapers of old and had traveled from America to Africa 'the dark continent' to trace the whereabouts of the Scottish explorer Dr. David Livingston for a story. I won't dwell on the nitty gritty as details of this exciting expedition are in encyclopedias and many history textbooks. Now imagine though if this took place during our time. He would have possibly phrased the statement differently for a start i.e. "Yo whassup Dr. Dee!" Maybe Stanley might not have had to travel to Africa at all, because he would have been able to use fax, phone or even the Internet to trace Dr. Livingston. He might have even hooked up with Dr. Livingston at various online chatrooms if he had access to the Internet. There are infinite possibilities. With the advent of broadcast journalism, imagine how for instance if Stanley worked for CNN, the Victoria Falls would have been unveiled for a worldwide television audience; spectacular. Larry King could have had a chat with these guys even. Go on now: use that imagination. The most dramatic way that all this could have happened, in my opinion, is if the adventures of Stanley and Dr. Livingston were captured as remote broadcasts for a radio audience but the point here is that the Dark Continent is in the light of the Information Age. |
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Written by Holo Hachonda IV
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UNAIDS in their paper "AIDS and Development" describe the pandemic as unique in it's devastating impact on the social, economic and demographic foundations of the development. Globally, it is estimated that 34 million people are HIV positive, 95% living in the developing world with 70% of these in sub-Saharan Africa. In 1999 alone, an estimated 5.4 million people were infected worldwide, a number which then netted off against the estimated number of deaths (2.6 million), still increases the number of people infected worldwide by 2.6 million (UNAIDS 1999a: 3). |
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