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…
MADE IN ZAMBIA
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…
Imperial Child to Superwoman
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…
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…
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…
Ichisungu: Teenage Mutants, Zambian’s in the Diaspora have stopped initiation ceremonies
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….
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 the world…
Doors to the past (Time capsule)
By Jackie Mwanza Anyone old enough to remember Lusaka in the mid 80′s (particularly 1985) may recall countless men & women donning a t-shirt with the image of a skinny, shoulder length haired,…
