Author Archives: Theresa Lungu

About Theresa Lungu

Theresa Lungu is founder of Books for Zambia, www.Booksforzambia.com. Born and raised in Luanshya, Zambia, Theresa has seen and felt the acute need for enhanced early childhood education in Zambia. She started Books For Zambia in 2003 to save Luanshya Library from the verge of closure. A graduate of Boston College, she now lives in Massachusetts and works at Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child. Theresa is also the author of ‘Twilight In The Morning’ and is looking to publish her second novel, 'Torment of an Angel' in the near future.
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Love Zambia, Please

March 19, 2013 4 comments
By Theresa Lungu When I left Zambia for the US over a decade ago, I was so relieved to get out. I was confident America would be beautiful and perfect. However, in this great nation, full of wonder a...
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Conversations in AIDS

November 26, 2012 no comments
By Theresa Lungu A couple of years ago, while studying at Boston College in Massachusetts, I was asked to be a guest speaker in an undergraduate class; AIDS in Africa.
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MUVI TV Boosts Women’s Inferiority?

November 12, 2012 5 comments
By Theresa Lungu I was rather startled by a recent video report by Muvi TV. Their reporter, Mwaka Namfukwe was in Kantolomba Township in Ndola covering a story she titled, Some Civic Leaders in Ndola...
Iris Kaingu enters Lusaka Central Prison pending sentence on Thursday, 25th.

The Immorality of Convicting Iris Kaingu

October 24, 2012 4 comments
By Theresa Lungu The picture of Iris Kaingu entering Lusaka Central Prison, her head bowed in shame, her young face marred with worry is a testimony of Zambia’s twisted and incompetent justice system...

That Woman Thing… By Theresa Lungu

March 16, 2012 5 comments
Ah the revolution or not… I just finished reading an article by Lady C published on this site in which she writes quote, the majority of Zambian women in the UK who are so sick and tired of being emb...