The Rise of The African Glossy Magazine
By Jackie Mwanza I absolutely adore fashion and because I am still a wannabe successful, rich artist I curb my fashion appetite by indulging in an item of clothing from Primarni (Primark), once in a ...
Author Archives: Jackie Mwanza
MADE IN ZAMBIA
[wide] [/wide] By Jackie Mwanza I spent the first couple of years in the early 1990′s visiting my family who lived in Brussels at the time, at least 3 times a year. It was there that I dated a ...
Imperial Child to Superwoman
[wide] [/wide] By Jackie Mwanza The 25th of March 2007 marked 200 years – to the day – that a Parliamentary Bill was passed to abolish the slave trade in the then British Empire. This marked the begi...
A NEW TRIBE OF ZAMBIANS
By Jackie Mwanza For as long as I can remember there had been a running family joke about my auntie who married a Kaluvale man – my father revelled in professing how impressed he had been that ...
Fly to Zambia, just for a laugh!
By Jackie Mwanza I have just spent the last two hours watching ‘Dorika and the Big Dudes’ on You tube and can safely say I have executed my daily exercise through laughter. The likes of B...
Ichisungu: Teenage Mutants, Zambian’s in the Diaspora have stopped ini...
By Jackie Mwanza I moved to England as a young teenager. I was already a woman, technically and had had a small scale initiation ceremony back home to acknowledge my coming of age. I felt rather spec...
Recycled Art: Yes, we Can!
By Jackie Mwanza Like most kids in our neighbourhood my siblings and I used to take pleasure in making toys out of rubbish. There we were innocently saving the planet by reusing old mealie meal sacks...
LUSAKA: Concrete Jungle
By Jackie Mwanza If a city is definable by its’ major monuments, what would Lusaka’s emblems be. On billboards all around London there are constant advertisements for holiday destinations all over th...