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NEWS ZA MBIA Article and Images by Langmead and Baker [email protected] PROFLIGHT ZAMBIA HELPS RESCUE ABANDONED PRIMATE Proflight Zambia has helped rescue Project (ZPP) discovered him and The great majority of primates a two-week-old vervet monkey took him to Lusaka before Proflight that ZPP rescues are victims of the whose mother was killed by stepped in to move him to Mfuwe growing bush meat trade in Zambia. poachers. where he will be weaned together The mothers are slaughtered for with other orphaned vervets. their meat and their young sold into the illegal pet trade and fall victim The airline stepped in to fly to animal cruelty. the young primate to safety at “We know the importance of such Chipembele Wildlife Education Trust species and the need to protect in South Luangwa National Park, them. Tourists travel from far to GRI - Zambia Primate Project is where it will be cared for until it is come and see them. This alone one of Africa’s most established old enough to be released back into helps to boost tourism in Zambia and successful primate release the wild. so ensuring that they are safe programmes with its mission is and protected is important for to rescue and rehabilitate injured, tourism as well as the country’s orphaned and illegally held vervet The little monkey - named Myk development,” says Captain Phillip monkeys and yellow baboons for - was being sold on the roadside Lemba, Director of Government and release back to the wild. Primate when a team from Game Rangers Industry Affairs at Proflight Zambia. survival rate six months after International Zambia Primate 52

release currently averages a remarkable 95 percent, said the organisation. It was established by the Born Free Foundation, which provides ongoing support. Protecting wildlife is a key component of Proflight’s social responsibility programme as the airline recognises the importance of wildlife in attracting tourists to Zambia. In the past Proflight has helped conservation groups fly a rescued baby elephant and a hippo to be cared for. 53

Profile WEZI MHONE SPREADING HOPE STORY by Kapalu Mutenda | IMAGES by Kutiya Media Born and raised in the small friendly city of Ndola, Victoria Wezi Mhone was born in 1992. She began her professional career in 2012, though she had been singing since she could talk. She’s currently in the School of Humanities at the University of Zambia. Yet despite being a full time student she has been able to pursue her musical passion. Blessed with a melodic voice and infectious smile Wezi’s life theme is spreading hope. As we begin the New Year we sat down with her to forecast the year ahead. What’s the one New Year’s resolution you’ve made that you know you’re going to break? To fight less with my sisters and little brother. I know I’m going to break it cause I make this resolution every year. What new way of celebrating Valentines would you like to see? I would really like the old ways to come back to be honest. When I was growing up flowers, a teddy bear, card and a box of chocolates were always enough. Oh and who can forget people making a CD for their valentine. That was very interesting seeing as they picked personal songs. Every Women’s day and Youth day there’s a march, what new way of raising awareness would you suggest? Depends to what we are raising awareness. I think that such days should be used to carry out important community service, rather 54

than marching. So on Women’s Day, design more blankets in numbers a manifesto that gives a shot to maybe we could all volunteer at for the homeless children out there. the younger generation to lead and women’s centres, maternal wings, or It hurts me when I think of those develop our land! But am sure you women’s prisons. On Youth Day, we homeless children in the middle of must know by now that I would could focus on orphanages, street a cold night. mostly advocate for a country with kinds and such. Marching doesn’t no street kids/homeless children! deliver much. No kids selling at the market! Its blockbuster season in Hollywood More schools and playing fields for and you’ve been asked to develop a children! I would name my party Its April Fools month, what new day new superhero by DC Comics, what “Imitikula Empanga!” Though I know would you put in place of it? name and superpower would you that’s not a really cool name. pick? A second birthday for me, hahahaha...just joking. I would love I would create a super hero that can If you were asked to write a new to have a day celebrated entirely build a million homes for those in national anthem, how would it differ for the children of Africa. I love the need with a snap of my fingers! I from the current one? children of my land. You can see think I would name the character... how they are ever happy and joyful ummm…still thinking. . I think it would be a mistake to even in the midst of hunger and change our national anthem. It’s fine poverty. God bless the African child as it is, although it would have been and let LOVE REIGN! As wedding season kicks off what nice if it was written by a Zambian. new wedding practice will you introduce as a wedding planner? As minister of labour you’re asked The number one thing is definitely As most pupils prepare for exams, to give the Labour Day speech, what to stay within your budget. So many what new subject would you new regulation would you introduce couples start off their married life introduce for kids to write? to protect workers? in debt and it’s pretty sad, especially I would introduce “MUSIC”!!! Extend maternal leave and because your wedding only lasts a introduce a shorter paternal leave day, but your marriage lasts (ideally) as well. forever. Which new place would you most want to visit for a Christmas holiday? In the coldest season of the year, Since 2016 will be an election year, Capetown! what new item of clothing needs to what would be the name of your be designed to protect us from the new party and what would be its weather? unique manifesto point? I would suggest necessity over Ooooh let’s see, the Animal Farm fashion. I would simply say let’s story again huh? Well i would have 55

On the Grapevine Bright Summer Whites STORY by Efemia Chela IMAGES provided by writer &Thinkstock A Note on Good Taste Wine-tasting is fairly easy. First look at the wine in your glass. Put a white piece of paper behind it and take note of the colour. You get some really visually appealing wines – salmon coloured ones, violet ones, Our resident oenophile swings from those of a golden hue. So take a vine to vine - tasting, sniffing and couple of seconds to appreciate the sizing up the best wines available beauty of the wine you’ll be tasting. for you to sip on and savour. This month she’ll introduce you to the Second, get the nose ready. The basics of wine-tasting and some majority of what we think is taste bright white wines. Happy Drinking! is actually what’s registered by the nose. So poke your nose in to the Here are a range of lovely summer glass while it’s still and think about whites to practise your new skills what you can smell. Next swirl the on: glass a little. This opens up the aromas in the wine, you should be Bellingham Citrus Grove Chenin able to smell more now. Blanc 2012 (W. O. Paarl, SA) Third, take a sip. Open your mouth a little so some air can come in and roll the wine around your mouth Chenin Blanc is the most grown and swallow. varietal in South Africa making up nearly 50% of white grapes grown Repeat the process and note in the Western Cape. everything you taste and smell. There are no wrong answers and the Plenty of freshness with the more you practice the more you’ll Citrus Grove. Beautiful nose on be able to pick up certain scents or this wine; aromas of lemons and feel the texture of the wine. Your oranges. On the palate, there is appreciation and knowledge of wine juicy ripe cantaloupe and pineapple. will grow. Rope in your friends and Flavourful, fresh and satisfying. see what they think about the wine. It pairs well with creamy pastas, Congratulations you are now an braaied chicken and rich runny official wine taster! cheeses like Brie. 56

Alvi’s Drift Viognier 2014 Paul Cluver Gewurtztraminer 2014 { Effie’s Pick! } (W. O. Elgin, SA) (W. O. Worcester, SA) This variety of grape is synonymous Viognier is a little grown grape with Germany where it originated variety in the New World but it from and has been perfected by has a lot to offer. It brings a floral the country’s winemakers. It’s quality to wines so is often used in made its way to the New World red or white blends to bring some where winemakers have had some lightness or extra dimension to the excellent results in hotter climates. mix. It smells like fragrant loose-leaf Here its elegance is undiluted and tea on the nose with perhaps a the Viognier shines. This wine is bit of Turkish Delight. There are redolent of jasmine and its fragrant flashes of litchi and lime upon nose complements the flavours of drinking. This is a sweeter wine but apricots, white peach and cashew its well-integrated flavour makes nuttiness that make it supremely for exceptionally easy drinking. The drinkable. It pairs well with spicy Paul Cluver is absolutely divine with curries, fish and hard cheese. Thai green curries and enhances fish dishes like pan-fried salmon Villa Paulus Pouilly-Fumé 2013 well. (W. O. Loire Valley, France) Definitely a special occasion wine, this bottle comes from a premier producer and the world famous Loire Valley in France. It is 100% Sauvignon Blanc has a soothing smell of wet stones. It tastes of lemon and grapefruit and at the grand finish there is a hint of florality and flint. Exceptionally refreshing on a hot summer day. Pair with any white meat or fish. This lean wine will cut through and complement any rich pork dish as well cutting through any fattiness. Nederburg Chardonnay Winemaster’s Reserve 2014 (W. O. SA) Expect some apricot and lime on the palate with this full-bodied wine. This Chardonnay is slightly oaked and this lends a note of buttered toast to the overall sumptuousness of the wine as well as the nose. The finish on this is slightly creamy and lingers pleasantly. This Chardonnay pairs well with Sunday lunch, think: roast chicken, crispy potatoes and good company. This wine will age well for two years. 57

On the Grapevine Summer Sangria Wine-Speak (Makes 2 large pitchers) Old World Regions where wine was Push the boat out if you’re having commercialised and grown earliest, a party and make a white wine namely Europe.. So this includes but version of Sangria to cool down and is not limited to Greece, Portugal, impress your guests. You don’t need Spain, Italy and France. Rules about to use an expensive white wine growing here. Use something low-cost that and naming wines are stricter in the can take up the flavours the sangria old world and their wines tend to will be infused with. be more expensive. Ingredients New World 5 large apples New World just means countries 2 pots of blueberries that are newer producers of wine. 2 large peaches These include North and South 1 lemon America, South Africa, Australia and 1 pkt fresh mint leaves New Zealand. Small wine making 1 bottle dry white wine regions are found in North Africa 1 bottle semi-sweet white wine and the Middle East and these 1 cup of Vodka (I prefer Gin here but regions too are considered to be use what you prefer) New World. Angostura bitters 1lt Sprite Varietal - a type of grape e.g. Ice (for serving) Sauvignon Blanc, Merlot Method 1. Assemble two large pitchers and follow the steps below adding the prepared ingredients sequentially to them. 2. Core and dice your apples. 3. Toss in the blueberries. Slice the peaches 4. Peel the lemon and squash the rind to release the oils before adding the curls to the pitcher. 5. Slice the mint leaves into ribbons. 6. Add the wine and stir with a wooden spoon. 7. Add add 1/2 cup of vodka and 6 drops of bitters to each jug. 8. Put the sangria in the fridge for 2 hours so all the flavours meld. 9. Add Sprite to taste just before serving so the sangria retains its fizz. 10. Serve in wine glasses. Enjoy! 58

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Music Having established himself as an artist who was versatile and lyrically talented, Mag44 is back with a second Album called Brave Only. His first album was called JiJue: Self Discovery and it really did sound like an artist trying to find who he was among the crowds. At the end of the album he succeeded in setting himself apart from the other gospel artists Zambia has. He mixed different sounds and rhythms. He reached out to every demographic and made sure there was a song for everyone in the album. Two of his songs have even made to some churches’ song list for praise and worship. Not bad for a gospel rapper, in a country that a significant section of the Christian population believes a Christian has no business doing rap. Now more than two years later, he is back with his sophomore album. He suffered quite some beat down from the public about his choice of performance venues. He made his first album from a place of fear, he says. Hoping to please people with his songs, he went through great lengths to do that. This time it was different, he says. This time he was tired of living in line with people’s standards. He was tired of sticking to the safe old methods and so he stepped out. Brave Only is different. Its overall theme is a sound that most people can identify, Zamrock. Most of the songs have a thread tying them together, a lead guitar that is so prominent in Kalindula. In his first album he featured so many big names, from Pompi to Abel Chungu Musuka, from the Peace preachers to Karen and the one that shocked most people, renowned boxer, Esther Phiri. It was a concoction of stars and they brought their sound and audience to the album. In Brave Only he does something different. He features people you and I have heard little “BRAVE ONLY” BY MAG44: THE RETURN OF ZAMROCK STORY by Chipo Chitambi | IMAGE courtesy of Fortess Media 60

or nothing of. Lelwa (in Mwentula combination of Kalindula and Rock is Tonight which is a modern disco and Nchito), who does not have a to make a sound that is unique sound. It threatens to drag along single song to her name. Zaldo, the to Zambia. Vocabulary is also a and one gets the feeling it doesn’t prominent voice in Final Destination Zamrock track and is inspired by the really fit in the collection. who no one has heard of. Sarah in legendary Paul Ngozi. Feeling who sings in a choir. He features Nalu in I Found Love who No is a slow rock song. And the most is one of Zambia’s best song birds Mwentula, the second single from emotive of all the songs. He adds and the exception to the album. the album, is an afro pop beat spoken word in it that just adds to James Sakala, brings his sound in song mixed with the prominent the emotion and message of the Vocabulary and lent his song writing lead guitar from Kalindula. From song. One might argue to say it is skills to Mwentula. The Elect Band people’s responses, it is a sound that the best song in the album but that plays the guitars and keyboard everyone is receptive to. Tamanga might be my personal preference. in the album. The talented Sam is an afro jazz song inspired by the The album has interludes of Chitundu plays lead guitar in some Fela Kuti sound. It is a song that narration by Jaggery Chanda, the last of the songs too. talks about the hustle of making surviving member of the 70’s rock a living. Ipongoloke is an afro band, The Witch. This ties in really pop beat with a rock guitar and a well with the Zamrock theme. The album begins with the intro saxophone that speaks volumes. track Brave Only, it has a west coast hip hop instrumental with a Brave Only is an album well planned rock and roll guitar line. It is less Final Destination is an afro pop and well plotted. It is obvious that than 2 minutes and does its job song with the lead guitar in Mag44 put a lot of time and work of setting the theme of having no Kalindula. It is a love song that is in this. The production is top notch. fear. Feeling is a 70s to 80s rock quite sweet to be honest. Nchito The songs themselves do not and roll type of song. It has a feel is a hip hop trap beat fused with disappoint. This is one of the best good element to it and leaves me Kalindula. It exalts women to dream albums Zambia has heard in a while. feeling lighter and happier. Swagger harder and to believe in themselves. It’s safe to say that Mag44 scored and I found love are Zamrock. A Perhaps the weak link in the album a big one on this album, both as a producer and an artist. To be successful you need the right tools Hai Alive offers leading edge internet and interoffice connectivity solutions to over 50% of Zambia’s large corporates. Our customer base spans various sectors including manufucturing, mining, freight and forwarding, insurance, finance, government and energy. Contact us now to find out how we can help you. 255 037 [email protected] www.hai-alive.co.zm

Education TEACHING ENGLISH ABROAD: IS IT FOR YOU? STORY by Jo Adeyemo | IMAGE courtesy of Thandie Phiri There are an estimated 1.5 billion Institutions you can teach in THANDIE’S EXPERIENCE OF TEACHING people learning English around the Public and private schools IN CHINA world. The language has taken its (kindergarten to secondary level) Thandie Phiri, who hails from Zambia, place as the lingua franca of the 21st are the two main options available taught English at various schools in century and there are no signs of it to English teachers abroad. Private Beijing while studying for a master’s losing its dominance any time soon. schools tend to have more resources degree from 2008 to 2010. Unsurprisingly, a whole industry has and fewer students, which generally developed in response to the demand makes for a pleasant teaching from the multitudes seeking to learn experience. Teachers in public schools Who did you teach and what were the English. Teaching English as a foreign often have to contend with large expectations put on you? language (TEFL*) has become big classes, lower pay than in private business over the last three decades schools and a highly bureaucratic I mostly taught young children, 5 years and an increasing number of people system but also add that it’s an eye old and below. Often I would teach a are leaving their home countries to opening and life changing experience. couple classes at one school and then teach the language in far-flung areas. head across town to teach another (While the pay is part of the attraction class or two. Additionally, I also tutored to TEFL, there are also many volunteer the daughter of a prominent local opportunities available.) For many, living and teaching abroad figure. offers experiences they would not have It is also possible to teach in colleges, For the most part I was given at home and this is a huge part of the universities and language institutes. leeway to devise a curriculum and appeal. People who want to travel and Private tutoring on a one to one basis come up with my own lesson plans. work abroad, recent graduates still is another available option. Expectations vary; some schools are figuring out what they want out of You could find yourself teaching a quite rigid and will provide lesson life, middle-aged people looking for a class of 50 kindergartners or a small plans they expect teachers to stick new adventure and teachers looking to group of businessmen and women to while others will give teachers hone their craft in different locales and looking expand their networks by the freedom to conduct their classes enhance their CVs are just some of the learning English; the possibilities are however they please. individuals who take on TEFL. vast and varied. What challenges did you face in China? Location, location, location Teaching requirements From day one, language is the biggest China is by far the biggest market Requirements vary but generally you’ll challenge. Everything is written in with an estimated 300 million people need a TEFL certificate or equivalent, Chinese characters and that can make learning English and about 100,000 a university degree in any subject the simplest thing such as buying foreigners teaching English every (with English being the language groceries and toiletries a difficult task. year. Thailand, Japan, South Korea, of instruction), a clean criminal Saudi Arabia and Chile are some other background check and a clean bill of In some instances I was asked to tell popular destinations. African countries health. Previous teaching experience is my students I was American. [While such as South Africa, Ghana, Libya and always a plus. there are many teaching opportunities, Egypt also offer some opportunities. a hierarchy does exist and nationals of countries of such as the USA, Online jobs boards and recruitment Canada and the UK have much better agencies are the best means to find prospects of being hired to teach teaching jobs abroad. English]. I refused to pretend I was American but I also didn’t highlight the fact that I was Zambian, after all, I needed to make a living. 62

TP (far right) with classmates during winter celebrations At times I felt being very obviously What did you enjoy most about What advice would you give to those being different caused some level of teaching English? thinking about teaching in China? discomfort among the people around I could be a different person. With the I would advise anyone thinking of me and I wished I could just blend kids I could let loose, be silly and have teaching English in China to go and in. On two separate occasions I had fun. try it out. It’ll be such a rewarding several Chinese people stop and take experience. pictures of me because of my skin colour. Such behaviour tends to come What do you miss about China? from people from the countryside Get the qualification [TEFL certificate]. who are not so exposed, rather than The shopping! The street markets and It affects where in the country you can residents of larger towns. the haggling that comes along with work and how you can negotiate your them. The food as well. Everything about China is just so different. I think pay. Get whatever tools you need to How did you deal with the culture I had a more rewarding experience be able to teach. Be on the look out for people who’ll underestimate you shock? than if I’d have gone to Europe. because of where you come from and China was so different from what I China’s beautiful, the people are try to dupe you. was used to. Some people just can’t beautiful and I developed some really When you get there take advantage handle drastic changes but some will good relationships with many Chinese of the freedom you have but stay adjust and that’s what I had to do. people despite our differences. I could on the right side of the law, keep Whether you manage or not, let the ask for help and people would do yourself grounded, maintain your focus, experience teach you who you are. their best to assist me even with the remember why you’re there and be There’s no loss, if it doesn’t work out language barrier. open to new experiences. come back home and try something I felt safe. I could walk alone late at else. Life is short and we should all night and not worry about my safety, experience something different. China something I don’t do in Lusaka. *Other commonly used phrases are is a place where you can ruin your life teaching English as a second language completely or you can excel. It’s the (TESL) and teaching English to nature of the environment; it allows speakers of other languages (TESOL) you do things that you would not do here [Zambia]. 63

HOW TO MONETISE YOUR HOBBIES STORY by Kapalu Mutenda | IMAGE by Thinkstock Due to the harsh realities of the current global actually managed to make a living out of it. All of us have economy most people work to live and very few live hobbies we enjoy and are even good at, but these people to work. The vast majority of us get up and go to actually parlayed that interest and talent into a money work so that we can meet our living costs and get by. spinning operation. That monetised their hobby. But precious few of us actually wake up primed and To monetise one’s hobby is more than just to have psyched for work and go to sleep only so the next someone pay you to do what you enjoy. It’s being able workday can come sooner. The greater numbers of us to turn that hobby into a venture that garners recurring have not ended up in the vocation we dreamt of as income. It would break the monotony that most of us feel children. I stopped following my dreams when it was in our current occupations and give us real motivation to finally drilled into my head that the WWE would not be expand. extending their recruitment drive to these shores. Nine year old me was crushed. But how does one go about adding value to a past time? How does one begin the process of converting lifestyle to However, there are a select few who have managed a living? Here are five very basic tips that can be used by to pursue and subdue their dreams. People who go anyone seeking to monetise a hobby. to work every day with an irritatingly refreshing joie de vivre. People who not only enjoy what they do but 1. Organise feedback. where you have received most 2. Develop your hobby. compliments and criticism you If you have a hobby that you’re have identified what you need to The biggest mistake people make good at then the chances are maximise and minimise in your is to presume that what gets them someone has noticed. Make a note area of activity. Once you have done plaudits as a hobby will suffice as of the people who have previously this you should also take note of a business. The standards people commented on what it is that who this feedback is coming from. expect of amateurs differs from you intend to do. List the most The people who have taken time when one is actually paying for encouraging comments and the to compliment you on your baking the service or product. Whether most deflating. This will give you ability, or your mechanical skills, this means learning how to better the basis of where your strengths would be most likely to provide the preserve your perishable products or and weaknesses lie. By pinpointing how to add a corporate feel to your core of your first clients. 64

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CSR CHISHAWASHA: SANCTUARY FOR ORPHANED CHILDREN STORY & IMAGES by Nkole Nkole Children at the school are helped beyond primary school and Chishawasha supports the orphaned children from the community through free education as well as the provision of books and uniforms. The Colin B. Glassco Primary School located on the property, educates 143 children, with 70 resident orphans and 73 others from the community. The school currently has 12 classrooms, a large dining room, a kitchen, a staff room, a headteacher’s office and a library. “We usually keep children from very young until they are about 18,” Armanda highlighted. The children kept are those who have lost both parents, most often to HIV/AIDS. AMERICAN, Kathe Padilla was In the Bemba language, Chishawasha To help those children who are not watching Television one day when means “that which lives on” and heavily into books and the four walls she happened upon a documentary if there is anything the orphaned of a classroom, Chishawasha trains highlighting the struggles of children are guaranteed once getting them with skills to at least learn orphaned children in Africa and to the Home, it is just that - the a craft and earn a living once they particularly in Zambia. Just that image assurance that they can live on complete school. These crafts include on a TV screen was enough to stir her despite the painful backgrounds they sewing and carpentry. Currently the to action 15 years ago. may be coming from. From its discreet Home has a sewing skills project beginnings in the year 2000, today the running with the help of funding Home has grown to encompass seven She travelled to Zambia from America, houses and looks after 70 children. All through USAID. got a group of people together as the children residing at Chishawasha volunteers to sit on a board and went are orphans of different ages. In 2007, Chishawasha received a on to set up an office in Lusaka’s grant from Project Redwood, part Olympia Park area. As random as of which was used to convert an it all appeared, it was to mark the “We are looking after 70 children existing storeroom building into a beginning of Chishawasha Children’s at the moment. We also have a classroom space to facilitate training Home of Zambia, a non-profit school in Chishawasha which most in tailoring, sewing machine repairs, organisation created to help orphaned of the children go to,” Chishawasha electronics and crafts. Armanda children in Zambia and located 15 board chairperson, Armanda Theotis explains: “We teach the kids and also kilometres from Lusaka’s town centre, explained. the grandmothers in the community off Great North Road. to learn how to sew so that the 66

grandmothers also have an income caretakers are trying to put in place and the whole cost of running it is to help these orphaned kids.” The some measures to become self- borne by the Home. To this Armanda grandmothers are taught how to sustaining. adds: “The introduction of the fee sew handbags made from chitenge paying students was to try and help and for every single handbag sewn, with the cost of the running of the Chishawasha sells them while the A shop in Mumbwa area which is school. I think the school is a major grandmothers get a commission. run as a rest stop with fee paying component of our budget and we These bags are sold not just locally, toilets and a restaurant is one of the would like to be able to get some but in places as far off as America and projects that helps supplement the help in that respect.” Canada. Chishawasha budget. The orphanage also has a poultry that it would like to expand but momentarily cannot due Support to Chishawasha can be Because the psychological attachment to budget constraints. towards a project, the school or simply to Chishawasha can be often be a child. Many of the Home’s donors strong, the children are sent home would like it to move to become more every school holiday for a reminder of “We get donated some books from self-sustaining but the orphanage where they are coming from. School America that we sell at the Dutch having to bear its financial burden manager, Mary Mvula shares that Reformed Church market every on its own hinders such progress. this is a careful strategy used by the month,” Ten hectares of land was donated to orphanage to help the children not Chishawasha by a local chief in the lose touch with the harsh realities area and in the long term the Home they often leave behind at home. Another income generating activity plans to build a secondary school When they return to Chishawasha has been the introduction of fee as a means of generating income after a school holiday, they have paying students, a project, which by maintaining a percentage of fee renewed vigour be more dedicated to partly helps with various expenses. paying students. their school work so they need not be The Home also has a full-time cook condemned to misery for the rest of employed there because for most their lives. of the children that come from the Resident orphans at the Home who nearby community, Chishawasha is are in secondary school attend the only place where they will get a classes at a basic school situated Currently the main source of funding decent meal each day. close to Chishawasha. Together for the orphanage is the Colin B. with the orphans in a younger age Glassco Foundation of Calgary in bracket, all are just glad to have the Canada which supports more than Despite these ventures, Armanda opportunity of a decent education and 95 percent of Chishawasha’s budget. points out that income from these to rest assured that no matter their The school at Chishawasha was also projects is negligible if one takes into experiences, Chishawasha provides built with support of the Foundation. account the broader picture, which them space to find themselves and to However, the main challenge for includes the high cost of living and live on against the odds. Chishawasha is that it cannot rely general high cost of products. The on donor funding forever. As such its school pays all the teachers’ salaries 67

Sports THE DECLINE OF THE LOCAL STADIUM SPECTATOR STORY by Kapalu Mutenda It’s a sunny Saturday afternoon than common scoreline at the time. replaced by replica shirts of English in 1996. Chingola town centre After my first taste of live football and Spanish teams. And while the is bristling with activity. People action I can hardly say I became a national team jersey does feature scurrying to and from appointments. regular. I couldn’t afford to get a strongly as well, Super Division The weekend vibe fully set in as ticket every week. Not to mention replicas are hard to find. Most people anticipate what pleasures Nchanga Stadium was right across football enthusiasts can name more the rest of the day has in store. the other side of town from home. members from the squads of an No place is this more true than But I was able to attend many English league middling team than the town bus station. Hardly a more matches over the years. Even from the Super League champions. dull setting at the best of times, managing to convince my sisters to every other Saturday afternoon the come watch Rangers play in the CAF Aiding the popularity of foreign station is awash with a cacophony Cup, as it then was. The days when I leagues is the widespread presence of colour and vibrancy. Everywhere could make it to the stadium though of satellite television. Back in the one looked there was a middle were always a highlight. It was mid-nineties satellite dishes were aged man wearing a striped scarf never just a weekend activity, it was so few and far between that houses and possibly a supporter’s jersey the weekend activity. The activity were described as “the one with the too. Saturday afternoon in Chingola around which all my plans would dish”. Our only exposure to English was of course football day. And all revolve. Including the time I went football was BBC radio commentary of those men were either getting a to watch Rangers play the Saturday and the aforementioned midweek bus to Nchanga Stadium, home of before I was due to begin my grade European fixtures. Now satellite Brave Nchanga Rangers Football seven exams. dishes are so common in some Club or were headed out of town to places you may be known as the go watch another team. It was hard However, those were the days before one without a dish. And while not see a fan wearing his team’s the economic malaise took full hold it would not be fair for it to go colours. And all those colours would of the general populace. Before the without mention that the football converge upon one central location. average fan had to make a choice authorities have partnered with the The stadium. between important things like satellite television broadcasters football and trivial matters like food to air local league matches it I still remember my first stadium and rent. Attendances at local stadia is debateable whether this has experience. Nchanga Rangers were took a real dip, and though there actually increased interest while playing Railway Express(yes, it was has been a mini revival in the past simultaneously keeping attendances that long ago). I suspect my uncle few years it is nothing compared low. and his friend wanted a free ticket to the heights of its former glory. to the match and so persuaded my It has been argued that the rise in Without the support of Zambia’s mum to allow them to take me for popularity in the behemoth that is socio-economic sugar daddy, ZCCM, my first live game. Not that I cared English Premier League football has the maintenance of local stadia much. It was an exciting day. Having caused many local fans to become has also fallen away. A lot of the only been exposed to televised disaffected with their local teams. clubs have been unable to offer matches of the national team Said Chichi Musonda, “People don’t facilities that offer fans comfort and midweek UEFA Champions seem to be personally attached and security during their match day League games I was expecting an to the teams anymore. Back in the experience. Decaying and decrepit atmosphere to rival what I had days lots of Lusaka people would infrastructure has kept many fans seen. I soaked in all the sights and be wearing jerseys after a Zanaco away and renders live football sounds, and unfortunately some of win, or the City fans would get nowhere near the top of the list for the smells too. The seating structure rowdy after City almost win. Now the foreign day tripper. With new was markedly unspectacular. Rows there’s barely any evidence the next modern national stadia being built of concrete slabs provided the day when a Lusaka team wins an in Lusaka and Ndola the state of spectators with an uncomfortable important league match, or even the other grounds has been brought option should the team fail to get league.” into sharp focus. As fans can see them off their seats. And though the what kind of facilities are capable of Rangers team of the late nineties That the EPL is taking prominence is being built they now have cause to did win a title, Fordson Kabole’s evident from a walk along the main question whether a concrete slab is Rangers were hardly comparable street of any town in Zambia on a still worth their hard earned cash. to Luis Enrique’s Barcelona in the Saturday afternoon. The ubiquitous excitement stakes. 1-0 was a more local football scarf has been Other economic considerations 68

must also be taken into account local figures. “If you pay attention zones and facilities suitable for though. The obvious issues do to the people who attend national families may be beyond most clubs stand out. That clubs have no team matches, a lot of them and their sponsors, but a deliberate money for stadium maintenance are women. And these women refocussing of marketing efforts STORY by Kapalu Mutenda and fans have no money for tickets. aren’t avid football fans either. would not go amiss. But there is also the matter of Most have nothing more than a economic migration. To many passing interest in the national As things stand currently the football aficionados such as myself team. But what they go for is the numbers trooping through the a football team is for life. And one overall package. FAZ (the Football turnstiles leaves much to be desires. supports the team where one was Association of Zambia) need to The pervasive presence of fan born or grew up. And so it becomes market the league to a broader paraphernalia representing local very difficult to maintain regular base. Right now they focus on the clubs is an issue of memory. And attendance of live matches when hardcore fan who would most likely while the clubs and their players work and business factors cause attend anyway. Perhaps the need to play their part in boosting numbers you to leave your hometown in sell it as a family experience that a by offering an attractive product search of greener pastures. I would man and his wife can both enjoy.” and overall experience, the local fan be loathe to be parted with my has his lot too. Seeking out places money to attend the home matches David raises a valid point. Many that sell jerseys of local teams of a team other than my own. And leagues across Europe are making and making an effort to attend even though Rangers do play away concerted efforts to appeal to a matches is as good a place to start matches in Lusaka every so often, broader market. This is done by as any. Nowadays Chingola town once one falls out of the habit of creating family friendly zones in the bus station on a Saturday afternoon attending matches it is very hard to stadia, offering family discounts and looks pretty like it does any other resume. clamping down on hooliganism and afternoon. What I would give to see other forms of anti-social behaviour. a scarf or two. Local football fan and media The scope for infrastructure consultant David offers an development to create specific interesting suggestion to boost Plot No. 187C | Namambozi Rd | Fairview Suite 12 | Mega Shopping Centre PostNet 136 E891 | Manda Hill | Lusaka | Zambia Independence Ave | Kitwe Tel: +260 211 221 091 | Tel/Fax: +260 211 221 092 Tel: +260 212 222380 Cell: 0975 221 093 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Reliability Value

Health A HEALTHIER YOU WEIGHT LOSS SOLUTIONS THAT WILL LAST BEYOND THE NEW YEAR STORY by Mukumbi Kabesha | IMAGE by Thinkstock Yeah! It’s that time of year again and all the latest diets that Hollywood the exercise routines and wait for we all love the New Year! January is swears by. You sign up for keep fit next year. And so in December you the most forgiving month because activities that you never knew were indulge like your life depends on it you are allowed to start afresh. We ‘a thing’. You give yourself unrealistic cause you know that come January, all get a clean slate to be filled over weight goals while somehow it’s a new story altogether. the year. The extra kilos you put on convincing yourself that this time over the festive season are no big it will be different. Everything goes The problem with most diets is deal because they were buried with according to plan for a few weeks that they focus on losing weight December. January doesn’t know and you make good progress. But rather than a healthier lifestyle. the old you. But we all know it’s not by March you start slipping. “A few The list of ‘don’ts’ is twice as long that straightforward. So what do calories here and there won’t make as the list of ‘dos’, such that losing we do about it? Make it a New Year’s a difference”, you tell yourself. “If I weight becomes an insurmountable resolution of course! Somehow, just have this cake today I can run it off laborious task, rather than a journey putting it in writing seems to be on the treadmill.” Or “Two days of to enjoy. half the battle won - whether as a cheating this week will be offset by mental note to self or as a glaring two extra gym sessions next week”. So how can you lose weight, be reminder on the fridge door. But if healthy and have fun while you’re at you went through this last year, and But the truth is you never get round it? By taking the focus off numbers the year before, and the year before to those gym sessions and the cheat and the slavery of meeting targets. that – then it’s time to change. days are probably cheat weeks. It’s Why not make a healthy lifestyle May and since you’ve been off the your goal instead. The results make Chances are every New Year you rails for more than a month you take a little longer to be seen but vow to lose weight. You search for decide to just quit the diets and they are more likely to last. 1. Allow yourself to indulge. 3. Exercise regularly Instead of denying yourself completely look for Make exercise a fun lifestyle rather than a chore. It healthier versions of the treats you enjoy. Eat smaller doesn’t have to be done in the gym. Taking a brisk walk portions and opt for low-fat and low sugar treats. If you to the corner store every day is a start. Get a group of bake, use wholemeal flour and brown sugar instead of friends together and workout to a DVD in the living refined flour and sugar. Use fresh fruit instead of canned room. The more the merrier. Sneak a workout into family fruit to avoid preserving agents and extra sugar. Besides, time by playing soccer with the kids. fresh fruit tastes so much better. If you want to snack try Your quality nuts and fruits. Better still, combine snacks with healthy 4. Set realistic goals. foods: fresh mangoes with icecream or a low fat dip with crisps. Unless you’re a fashion model life as you know it finishing store doesn’t depend on how much you weigh or on having 2. Keep Well hydrated the perfect body. If you do want to lose some weight do it over a period of time gradually. A fad diet is difficult Maintain the correct fluid levels by drinking enough to maintain cause the restrictions are numerous and water. You can also consume fruits like watermelons extreme at best. Not meeting your target can easily that have high water content if you find it difficult to make you feel discouraged and give up all together. drink a lot of water. Consuming freshly squeezed fruit If you are able to meet your goals you’ll be more juice and ice teas are also a good way to keep hydrated. motivated to stick at it. Carbonated drinks and sweetened juices should be reduced. Mungwi Centre +260 971 239 839 70 7403 Mungwi Road, Lusaka [email protected]

5. Fill up on fibre 7. Have a good support system Fibre is the mainstay of healthy eating because not Have friends or family members join you in your only does it make you feel fuller quickly but it is low quest for a healthier lifestyle. That way you can be in calories. Fruits and vegetables are a good source accountable to one another and team up for exercise of fibre. They should be steamed or eaten raw. Cereals sessions. If family members are in there’ll be less like oatmeal, brown rice and whole wheat pasta can be chance of having too much tempting food in the house. added to the list. You’ll also enjoy eating as a family if you aren’t made to feel deprived of certain foods. 6. Keep Busy So with everything in perspective make healthy living One reason we snack is out of sheer boredom. To help a lifestyle that will last all year long. You’ll be all the keep your mind off food keep yourself busy or even start happier for it. a new hobby. You’ll be surprised how time will fly and before you know it you’d have cut back on in-between- meal snacks. Your quality finishing store Mungwi Centre +260 971 239 839 7403 Mungwi Road, Lusaka [email protected]

The GreatZ: Zambia’s first podcast STORY by Mazuba Kapambwe | IMAGES courtesy of Kwitu Photography You can listen to them on the Already three episodes in, my responsibility. The fact that way to work, while at the gym or The GreatZ podcast has been most of what we know about our relaxing. I’m referring to Podcasts downloaded over 400 times in less species was passed on orally gives which are a program (as of music than a month. When asked why he me confidence that podcasts will or talk) made available in digital started the podcast, Machiya said, benefit my community now and in format for automatic download over “Primarily, I did it to scratch my own the future”. the Internet. (The Merriam Webster itch. I knew the form would help me Nkwazi: Please tell us about the Tenth International Collegiate). effectively learn about topics that guests you have had on the show Podcasts have been around since interested me as regards Zambia, so far. 2007 with the Daily Source code its people and our position in the widely believed to be the first, world. I had already been listening Machiya: The first person on the but have seen a rise in interest in to Podcasts for over two years show was Benny Blow who is a the past few years thanks to more before starting my own but none of freelance writer, copywriter and co- widespread internet connectivity. them had an understanding of my creator of the Great Mundane comic Zambia, however, has been late context. Therefore, it was necessary series. The second was girls rights to the podcast game in terms of I started one and in doing so I was activist Petra Chikasa and the most Zambians creating them. That confident it would be helpful to recent episode features social media has all changed with The GreatZ likeminded individuals seeing the maven and connector Mazuba (The Great Zed) podcast by Daniel impact this medium has had on my Kapambwe. Machiya. On the soundcloud page own life. for the show, it is described as a Nkwazi: How was the reception of show “dedicated to bringing you On the other hand, a Podcast is the podcast been so far? great conversations and great ideas an extremely effective means of straight out of Zambia!” curating the ideas and experiences Machiya: My target audience is Running on average for slightly of a generation. This is especially happy with the episodes we have over an hour, Machiya and his guests true now because of the availability put out so far. Also, the idea is discuss themes like feminism, the of tools that make the access of catching on to Zambians who have diaspora, pursuing ones passion and podcasts easy. Therefore, as a just heard of Podcasts. This is just more. student of history the preservation the inception but I am encouraged of these thoughts and feelings is by the steady growth the GreatZ 72

Podcast listenership is experiencing. I am extremely confident that more people will listen to the story of Zambia from a different perspective. Nkwazi: How are guests chosen? Machiya: I am lucky to be surrounded by people smarter than I am and so my curiosity is aroused very often. It’s from this reservoir of curiosity that I mind map on the best person for a particular lesson. I then find a way to have them on the show. Nkwazi: If you could feature any three icons on the podcast, who would they be? Machiya: I would like to chat to Kenneth Kaunda, Kalusha Bwalya and Namwali Serpell. Nkwazi: What are your favorite podcasts? (a) The Tim ferriss Show (b) Hardcore History (c) The art of Manliness Podcast Nkwazi: What is the great thing about podcasts vs other forms of media? Machiya: The audio file can be rewound, paused and forwarded. So you don’t have to sit in one place waiting for the programme to end. (a) You can listen while you do other things like run, shop, do chores or drive to work. They are extremely convenient. (b) Podcasts expose people to a treasure trove of useful resources such as other podcasts and books. Nkwazi: Any advice for people who would like to have a podcast? Machiya: Start Check out episodes of The GreatZ podcast via Daniel’s blog danielmachiya.wordpress.com under the Podcast section. 73

STORY by Kapalu Mutenda IMAGE by www.iknowhair.com the glee young ladies elicit from ostentatiously displaying an engagement ring. I recall how I would return home from boarding school and my father would remark to my mother that I had begun to While many cultures and peoples highly esteemed. The fashion of grow a beard. Every holiday the have various coming of age and a man’s beard spoke much of his same observation given with an initiation rites and rituals, the world social status, and for this reason earnest sense of surprise and pride. over one thing is agreed upon as man took a great deal of care to I recall many times standing in separating the men from the boys. ensure their facial hair was well front of the bathroom mirror as a A beard. Few things signify the kept. And in many cultures it was prepubescent boy with soap lather ascension into manhood than a full considered shameful for a man not smeared over my cheeks and chin. chin of facial hair proudly flaunted to sport one. I would meticulously scrape it off in the faces of all who walk by one’s with the back of a comb just like I way. Beards are seen as signs of The pride with which teenage had seen in the movies. I yearned one’s virility and strength. The beard boys show off their first strands for the day when my face would signified wisdom to many and was of facial hair is rivalled only by boast something more than pimples 74

Men’s Corner Festive “Glitter Beard” trend on various social media platforms and youthful innocence. And yet, explanations. Foremost amongst With many men being able to point despite the initial sense of triumph them is an assertion of their at Becks and George Clooney as and pride I, like many young men, machismo. Said one source, “Being ambassadors of the beard nation opted to shed their facial hair in due clean shaven is fine for men who the objections of many women time. like the girly look. But a man’s man were assuaged, if not outright laid wears his beard like a badge of to rest. Gone are the man bags and That was until recently. Many men honour.” pocketed moisturisers. The only have been keen to reclaim what cosmetic tool many men carry is the had become a somewhat lost It is notable that in an age where beard comb. glory. Right on the tail end of the gender roles are being swapped metrosexual movement, which and distinctions being blurred, a And this is one factor that show the had men the world over taking up new wave of alpha males is rising changing times. Many beard nation more space on the skin care shelf that reject any attempt to place citizens place much importance on than their partners, a return to the men and women in a cultural grooming their beards. Beards no manliness of the face rug is being melting pot. Psychologists assert longer grow themselves. They are embraced. Men are forming a nation. that the increase in the number of nurtured like bonsai trees. As said by A nation without borders. The beard beards could be a direct response Khumbulani, “If its worth having its nation. to what many men see as society worth keeping. Nothing worse than stripping them of their manhood. As a man who doesn’t groom. Beards To be fair, the beard nation’s initial men are urged to be more gentle are not for people who don’t have rise has been for some years. The and sensitive and other adjectives time to shave. They’re for people surprise element has since worn thought anathema in generations who have time to take care of them.” off. What is surprising though is past, the beard stands as the one its longevity. As with all fads it last act of defiance. And affront While no one is yet quite sure how was expected to fade away as the in the face of social pressure to long this new movement shall be enthusiasm of its followers was, conform to the new definition of a with us, one thing that we can be over time, shorn. Pun intended. man. certain about is the seriousness However, rather than fall into the with which many of its followers realms of past trends, beards have Ironically, one of the men who take it. They are no longer an continued their ascendency. helped kill the beard as a appendage on the faces of a fair The reasons for sporting facial fashionable statement also helped few. They are now the pride and joy hair have also evolved over time. give a firm base for its modern of a significant number. And as the Whereas as one point it was day renaissance. David Beckham, saying goes, “Your character tells the predominantly the hipster and the former poster child for world you are a man. The beard is rebel’s statements of choice, beard metrosexuality, helped to legitimize merely an exclamation point!” wearers are advancing more varied the bearded look in recent times. 75

Satire “YOU ARE OVER STEPPING” THAT’S WHATSAPP! STORY by Kempson Ari Mabuluki Jaffe Joffer We Yulu It’s stupid o’clock and lo and behold ease the draking, I fumigate the customer or an acquaintance at best I hear that famous tone. No I’m room with target and hop back I do not know from a bar of soap. not awake but the chorus of the on the shut eye express. The train Would you go to Spar at 4am? No? mosquito choir, and the effects of has not even left the station and Yeah I’m not open either bozo so global warming are causing me to another note pops up. “Are you beat it and cut that noise. Send me perspire and alas are contributing to sleeping?” are you kidding me, it is a 2 minute video saying have a nice my constant tossing and turning. 3am buster what do you think? Nah day and see where I’ll excruciatingly in fact I was just doing my laundry, put your phone. Get the picture, But wait, blurry eyed and still in while thinking about how I’ll block good. But seriously, did you not see zombie haze mode I fiddle to see you and kick you in the teeth the where it explicitly reads *Sleeping* who the uncaring individual is and next time I see you. Wait how do I on my status. Oh you own a smart what they could possibly want from even know you stranger? Chances phone but are clearly nowhere near me and why I must be subjected to are I thought you were strange smart. No one cares if your phone is this lunacy. Two green oh wait its within five minutes of meeting and on Do Not Disturb. blue ticks (could she be knocked put a cross in the box that read, up), “I can’t sleep, are you wake” it avoid at all costs. Yes I’m eccentric Group messages and religious reads. Oh so suddenly someone died and we already discussed that, but callers/bible bashers are a whole and made me the sleep fairy? Initial did it ever occur to you that just other topic for another day. The reflex is to send a message that maybe I need to replenish via sleep? moral of the story, don’t abuse would make a nun blush. Do I even No? I’m telling you now, even the whatsapp least I put it in a comma. know the perpetrator of my piece of coolest of beings also sleep, “fly Unless you gave me life, are a family mind? Possibly that forward casual so much, I got a bed on the jet,” if I member (select family member) or acquaintance from a hazy strip may quote Lil Wayne to affirm that an all weather friend in a serious fix poker and spin the bottle episode, at he also sleeps. Between 3am and or you just had a child, or just won best a kiss and fiddle session saved 6am is when I sent my ex girlfriend a million dollars, look at the ceiling, as “Booty” or such in my contacts. a voice note that yes I slept with count sheep or whatever helps you And I ask again is the purpose another girl. Shocker! sleep better at night. Better yet stalk of Whatsapp to solve insomnia? people on Facebook or troll some Clearly not, but it has never stopped “Good morning, I just wanted to say unsuspecting individual, whatever people overstepping and opening a hi?” It is pitch black outside so there you do however do not overstep. can of worms they can’t close. can be nothing good about the morning, you are not an associate That’s Whatsapp folks! Phone is After a senseless one hour back and or share holder in my start up or currently in flight mode… there’s a forth temporary forever’s eventually enterprise. You are a prospective handy tip. 76



VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS TO TAKE OVER THE REAL WORLD IN 2016 STORY by Imanga Kayama | IMAGES by Thinkstock Virtual reality (VR) and all we the way you think about gaming become the new hotness, as Venture know about it is that there is loads forever. How can you argue when it Capitalists s and corporates get in of money being pumped into its feels like you are right there in the on the act hastening the number research. Forget smart fridges and game you are playing and part of of investments made in the last 12 generally smart homes, VR is the the imagined world? months. biggest thing 2016 will see tech- As the ecosystem begins to take wise. With final production versions of shape, the investment community VR hardware and software being is providing the fuel to take AR/VR Virtual reality is causing so much released to the market, we are skywards. Significant investments hype in the technology space that rapidly approaching a cusp of are being made in AR/VR head- smartphones seem like such a transition as VR technologies reach mounted displays, video, solutions/ thing of the past. VR is also known a critical mass of functionality, services, advertising/marketing, as augmented reality (AR) and it reliability, ease-of-use, affordability games and apps. is literally the next big thing after and availability. smartphones. With the latest device Speaking of Facebook, the social from Samsung only costing $99 From inception, virtual reality network is expanding support and being sold out 2 weeks after development has experienced an for the immersive News Feed its release, the Oculus Rift is fast erratic rhythm which led many to videos in a big way. Facebook is becoming mainstream. doubt whether or not it was actually adding support for iOS and Gear going to happen. VR headsets and some consumer The virtual environment (VE) is There was a slow trickle of AR/ 360-degree cameras. Unlike regular changing the way we experience VR investments from 2006 until videos, 360-degree clips require content from entertainment to late 2014. Then the starting gun specialized cameras that are able education because virtual reality is for investment was shot, when to capture a full view of the scene essentially immersive multimedia. Magic Leap raised $542 million around them. You can change your It is a computer-simulated from Google and others, and nearly view of the videos by holding your environment that can mimic physical $1 billion poured into the sector smartphone at a different angle or presence in places in the real world since then, especially in the last 12 by dragging your finger (or cursor, or imagined worlds. months. if you’re in a browser) around the frame. This can be achieved through a As usual, Facebook drew attention device called an Oculus Rift. The in March this year with its $2 Though 360-degree videos aren’t Oculus is a virtual reality headset billion acquisition of the VR pioneer technically the same as virtual designed specifically for video company, Oculus. Since then, reality, viewing them through a games. Apparently, that will change augmented and virtual reality has virtual reality headset offers a much 78

Gadgets more immersive experience and lot of your mind’s processing power violence and fails to show empathy could be seen a first step toward especially when trying to recall or compassion as a result. This is a bigger virtual reality push from visual memories. The Oculus Rift particularly problematic for gamers Facebook. shoves you right into augmented who play first person shooters or A few believers in the AR/VR reality by encaging your eyes into role playing games which require a gospel are the likes of Intel, Google, the device in order to fully achieve high degree of immersion. Facebook and Microsoft. Need we the immersive experience. What this say more? does is create a boundary between All in all, the argument is that the you and the real world. This could benefits outweigh the cost dominate Virtual reality can recreate sensory potentially lead to cyber-addiction the VR debate. Imagine this: experiences, including virtual where the virtual environment taste, sight, smell, sound, touch, (VE) becomes more appealing than • Those in business can view etc. Naturally, movie studios are the real world and the boundary products at any time convenient; partnering with VR vendors to between imagination and reality is bring content to market. News blurred. • Tourism is made easy by giving organizations are similarly working a detailed view of the original with VR companies to bring When you try to remember place through virtual tours; immersive experiences of news something, chances are that you directly into the home, including live close your eyes. According to • Train students without putting events. The stage is set for broad cognitive scientist, Art Markham, them in harm’s way in the fields adoption of VR. The possibilities are shutting off your vision is actually of law enforcement, medicine, absolutely mind blowing. very helpful when you’re trying to aviation, architecture, etc.; dig up information in your brain. On the other hand, as you prepare An indisputable aspect of the • Communication will be your mind to be blown in a good. social life such as the formation rewarding and more personal as The immersive experience only and maintenance of interpersonal it will feel as though the person caters for one person at a time relationships will be greatly is right in from of you yet miles because of the headset. The only disturbed, as if it is not already by away; way, that it would be possible to smart gadgets. have a communal AR/VR experience • More connections among people is if users met each other on the Additionally, the problem of will be made based on common other side. ‘desensitisation’ is a looming ethical interest rather than common issue with VR. Desensitisation means geographic location. Hello distractions! Deciphering that the person is no longer affected everything you see can take up a by extreme acts of behaviour such as Ready or not, VR is here. 79

Technology How would you like to make money programming and can sometimes be the digital divide.” without even raising a finger? used in accounting terms as coding “MBA program starting to emphasize numbers. These days, it is apparently coding.” They got me at, “Acquire new skills. way cooler and less scary to call it Advance your career. Expand your coding as opposed to programming. The point must be clear by now. mind.” That is how Lynda.com got However, before I continue raving my attention. Normally I ignore such The reasons why coding has become about how coding is the new emails, there are just too many of a buzz word are modest; mainly panacea of quality education and them saying the same things which because, it leads to the acquisition most importantly your career, it is I can independently Google later. of highly in-demand skills. Hello time to burst some bubbles. However, this time it was different. technology! Think about how everybody now needs to know how There were some very perceptive This is not a marketing article about to use a computer. Well now, the comments on the websites I visited the senders of the email or the world has shifted into a world order to collect my collage of information company that owns them. Not at all! where people need to learn coding/ for this article. Most interesting I know by now you are thinking that programming. were the comments from people you will find that it is a marketing Some recent news headlines on who had learnt coding in the 90s at scheme somewhere in the middle most results from the internet when school and didn’t understand what of the article but I promise it is not. you search for topics coding wise the hype about coding is now all Trust me. are: about. Others even claimed to have been coding at school as far back as So, this article is actually about “Entrepreneurs launch coding school the 70s! Please take us back to the learning the basics of programming for refugees in Germany.” future. even without becoming a computer “Computer coding in schools science guru or hardcore geek. possible, says minister.” Frankly, it is a bit confusing and eye- Programming has now become “Coding to be taught in Australian opening at the same time. But that is popularly known as coding. Coding schools from primary age.” how technology usually operates, so is simply a slang word referring to “Coding and creativity could conquer no surprise there. 80

Of course I do not have to even start your curriculum vitae or resume describing which part of the world anymore? Big not-so-much. it is these tech-savvy people learnt how assumed you should know by now. CODING THE PANACEA to code from. I visited the CBC.ca On the other hand, if you say, “ability out of a certain bias which perhaps to build websites and/or develop shall be revealed later but not in mobile applications” Boss-gasm this article. or HR-gasm if there is anything like that. Those skills may not be Apparently, the changing nature of required but they will certainly come the workforce dictates that in the in handy when the IT guy is MIA. next 10 to 20 years, everybody will be Ka-ching! required to know how to code because companies want to hire technically 3. Moneyloads skilled people. It is still unbelievable to come across somebody who does Downloads to moneyloads. When not know what coding is all about you create an amazing app just OF YOUR CAREER even just a flimsy explanation. Let’s because you can and let it sit in the step it up people! App Stores, people will discover your ingenuity and start downloading. Back to programming and why The more people download your it is fundamental to learn the app, the better for your revenue basics, here are 3 sure reasons why stream. So don’t forget to make programming needs you to pay those updates, fix them bugs and attention: iron out those kinks to make your app absolutely necessary in the lives 1. Mobile of mortals. Oh and most importantly, listen to your customer’s feedback Yes, another buzz word. Yes, it whether good or bad they just want deserves the hoopla. Mobile and to have a great experience and are coding go hand-in-hand. Bob Dylan letting you know how to be better. famously sang that “the times they Ka-ching! a-changing.” With the onslaught of social media, people are too With all that money in the bank, distracted to spend quality time you can now multitask and do other doing one thing. Mobile phones are things like coding. Truthfully, coding of course the reason why everything is not for everybody just like Excel has changed. Enter programming isn’t. But there are basic skills you to deal with the high demand of can learn in Excel to assist with content required to be consumed normal work stuff. Learning the by internet power-users and also basics of programming will unlock to deal with rising technological a world you never knew existed and challenges that come with using a once you see the light then you are device almost 24/7. One needs to gone forever. know how to deal with software issues more than hardware. Ka- ching! 2. Competitive edge STORY by Imanga Kayama cool, it is a differentiator with a Being tech-savvy is not only uber very short life span. Once everybody learns how to code and has the fundamentals of programming, well let’s just say you won’t be that special anymore. For instance, does it even matter whether you include competent in Microsoft Office on 81

Humour It seems like since I started writing this column, God may I mean, I agree that Dubai prides itself on having many be impressed with Dooderonomy and has almost re-written extravagant world records but this was amusing in a every single trip of mine, that involves flying. Every trip that I different way. How are they proud to have the longest bus take has incidents that happen almost as if they were to give in Asia? How does the ‘longest’ classification make sense me content for my next article. for a bus? If it were a bridge I would agree, but a bus? So what are commuters supposed to experience and be in awe I would like to specially point out that I am typing this of? The most number of passengers packed into a bus? As article on a Proflight journey to Lilongwe and I’m enjoying passengers, this is not something that to be amazed by, as it. I don’t allow plugging in my articles as you would have we have all surely experienced a train journey. So a company previously seen but this is important so that the plug is not gloating about making the ‘longest bus’ is rather ridiculous. pulled on my article ;-) We were waiting to board the plane while it was being refueled and once the refueling was I then made my way through the terminal and finally to the complete, six of us boarded the flight, ready for take-off. But lounge. I had a good few hours before my next flight and I there was a small problem; the refueling truck was parked found it hard to keep myself busy. After a bit of shopping, but right in front of the plane and during refueling I think the mainly window-shopping at the duty free, I was back in the driver had probably rushed to relieve himself. So the pilots lounge with my feet up and all ready to unwind. I fancied couldn’t start the engine yet and to have the truck moved another stiff drink and maybe catching a nap for a couple they needed to catch the attention of ground staff. It was all of hours. For some reason, instead of my usual choice of in my sight as this is a British Aerospace Jetstream 32 so it’s whiskey, I went for a gin and tonic. I mixed equal amounts of a small plane with the cockpit in full view. both and made myself a really strong ‘knock someone out’ concoction. Back in my lounge chair, comfortable under a The captain started getting a little impatient, so she tried to fuzzy blanket, I had a sip of the drink and it tasted atrocious. open the window and shout out for the ground crew but to However I was adamant to finish the drink as the waiter no avail. Then she did something that I never thought even did look at me in surprise and disgust simultaneously when in my wildest dreams that could happen on an airplane. She I was pouring myself such a generous helping earlier. But actually hooted! How cool is that?! Since when did aircrafts then, I noticed this tiny little plant right next to my side have horns? Or maybe they have always had them, if so table and I’m sure it was there for ambience. I touched the please excuse my ignorance. I am sure most of you reading soil to check if it was a real plant or one of those made in this had no clue either. But this was epic, I thought hooting the kingdom of PRC, which will also probably be the place of was only for vehicles on the road and used especially for the manufacture of my future kids. mini bus drivers that cut you across, which happens almost every 100 meters in Lusaka. Can someone in the powers Anyway, after confirming that it was real soil, I made a honestly do something about these guys? Why are they so stealthy and sneaky move of pouring of the entire drink into unruly and why do they get away with it? the flowerpot, with good intentions that the plant will have a good time and maybe start flirting with the other plants Now back from digressing, I wanted to discuss yet another around. Then I drifted off to sleep. After a long snooze I journey of mine recently. I in transit through Dubai and had woke up, had a shower and returned to my seat to find that boarded the first plane in Lusaka. I am sure most of you the entire plant had withered away! It was a weird purplish can guess which airline it must have been. This airline has color and smelt pretty funky. The stench got so bad that cameras in front of the plane and on the underbelly, for the soon there were random complaints from other passengers amusement of its passengers and after glaring at the empty and the cleaning guy, then a couple of the lounge staff tarmac and a couple of small home size fire extinguishers came over to investigate and removed my drinking plant for a while, we set off for Dubai. I quickly downed a couple of companion from the lounge. All this took place right in front strong drinks I fell asleep. of me as I rested my lazy behind on the couch. I was nervous of being answerable for this and quite embarrassed, so I Finally I landed in Dubai in the early hours of the morning put on an Oscar winning performance of being completely and there was a bus waiting to take us to the terminal. As I oblivious while concentrating on my laptop screen and paid was boarding the bus, being from a marketing background little attention to the situation around me. However, I didn’t I was quickly scanned all the branding on it. Everything in realize there were a couple of staff members behind my today’s world is branded by corporates and sometimes it’s chair that looked knowingly at my laptop, which wasn’t even actually quite annoying. If you look at branding in Zambia switched on! Thank God they didn’t make a fuss of it and I and you were to go by face value, Samsung owns the tallest got away with some further dirty looks. building in Lusaka, Harvey Tiles owns Kariba Dam: “A roof without Harvey tiles is like Kariba Dam without water, there I had decided to be sober from then on, until I boarded the will be load shedding.” This is their new punch line, lol! And next flight and decided to switch back to my good old, trusty Airtel apparently owns a bridge. whiskey. Amazingly the predominant message being communicated Dooderonomy will resume later, until then goodbye. on that bus by the manufacturer was “longest bus in Asia”. 82



Nkwazi Junior THE KING OF THE THE KING OF THE JUNGLE! STORY by Mukumbi Kabesha JUNGLE! Even though the lion is called the king of the jungle Lions live in groups called prides that are led by lions live in grasslands and open woodlands in a male. Zambia and other parts of Africa. You can see real live lions in national parks or at the zoo. Perhaps Lions are carnivores meaning that they eat you can ask your parents or guardians to take you to meat. The female lions do the hunting and bring see lions and other wild animals. back the food for the male to eat first. After the male has eaten the lioness and cubs eat. The lion is a large wildcat whose scientific name is Panthera Leo. Scientific names help scientists know That may not sound very fair but the male lion what families plants and animals belong to. They are protects the territory and the cubs while the not English but in Latin, a language that scientists lioness does the hunting. from all over the world use. Did you know that lions walk on tiptoes? Their heels don’t touch ground when they walk. The male lion has a mane that looks like a beard. The female lion is called a lioness and doesn’t have a mane. Colour this picture of a lion. 84

FUN IN THE KITCHEN! KITCHEN! STORY by Mukumbi Kabesha FUN IN THE Peanut butter Rice Krispie Balls *from recipelion.com Here’s a tasty recipe for Ingredients: you to make at home. These are so easy to make • 3/4 cup honey • 1 cup peanut butter and your friends will be • 1 teaspoon vanilla begging you for more. • 3 cups Rice Krispies • 1 cup peanuts (optional) ALWAYS REMEMBER: 1. Heat the peanut butter and honey in a saucepan. Stir it constantly until it starts to boil. Have an adult with you at all times in the kitchen. 2. Remove it from the heat and add vanilla. Stir in the Rice Krispies (and the peanuts too if Wash your hands with soap and you want to). water before you handle any food. 3. Place about 2 tablespoons into cupcake cases in a cupcake pan and leave to cool. Wait for food to cool completely before you tuck in. You can decorate with chocolate chips and sprinkles if you like. ENJOY! mmm nom nom nom!.. 85

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