LONDON CALLING – Hail to Nkandu Luo for considering Duo-citizenship and investment back home
BY AUSTIN KALUBA If there is one component that Zambians in the diaspora should take advantage of in the draft constitution it is the inclusion of duo citizenship. This inclusion of duo citizenship…
London Calling – ARE TB JOSHUA’S PREDICTIONS SOMETHING TO FALL FOR?
BY AUSTIN KALUBA I consider it to be a vestige of belief in the supernatural which missionaries condemned when they introduced Christianity to Africa. The belief in the paranormal seems to have surfaced…
LONDON CALLING – RACISM IS AS BRITISH AS FISH AND CHIPS
BY AUSTIN KALUBA According to a major survey on race relations carried out in Britain in 2002, more than half of Britons believed they live in a racist society. The opinion poll commissioned…
LONDON CALLING – CRY THE WRETCHED COUNTRY
By Austin Kaluba THE SECOND COMING Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,…
London Calling: Homosexuality Is Wrong. Period.
BY AUSTIN KALUBA Nature is nature. It has created male and female, “You David Cameron, are you suggesting that you don’t know that or is it some kind of insanity or part of…
LONDON CALLING: CHIEFS SHOULD COMMUNICATE IN VERNACULAR
BY AUSTIN KALUBA The institution of chieftainship and its associated traditional structures has always been a source of conflict since colonial times when Europeans came to Africa challenging or offering an alternative to…
Zambia: Down Memory Lane
This week I will take you down memory to pre-independence Zambia and add a few pieces from the post-independence era. Come with me in my Austin Leyland as we ride down to the…
Zambia: Down Memory Lane 1964
This week I will take you back to 1964 in my Chrysler. I will go date by date to chronicle this important year that birthed Zambia. Come with me in my car as…
LONDON CALLING – President Sata and his Voodoo Economics
BY AUSTIN KALUBA Voodoo economics is a slanderous term used by George H. W. Bush in reference to President Ronald Reagan’s economic policies, which came to be known as “Reaganomics”. Reagan was a…
LONDON CALLING- NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU’RE DOWN AND OUT
By Austin Kaluba One song that has been covered by numerous musicians is Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out. Originally a blues song, it highlights the fake loyalty one is likely…
London Calling: Zambians in the Diaspora come back home, to what?
BY AUSTIN KALUBA ‘Come Back Home,’ -Zambians in the Diaspora told. How many times has this headline graced the front pages of newspapers in Zambia? The other words that politicians like to use…
ZAMBIA: LONDON CALLING -PHASE OUT OLD CURRENCY TO COMBAT MONEY LAUNDERING
BY AUSTIN KALUBA So Austin Liato has is in detention for money laundering saga or allegedly theft. Whether Liato is convicted or freed by the Police, the incident should be a wake up…
Down Memory Lane to traditional Zambia By Austin Kaluba
This week I take you down memory lane to traditional Zambia when the whites were just coming to the region we now call Zambia. I will add a few pieces from a latter…
LONDON CALLING – So Gaddafi has been killed
So Gaddafi has been killed. So Obama has proved to the world that he is a number one champion of the anti-terrorism fight. His bloody record includes killing another ‘terrorist’ and ‘Mad dog’…
Down Memory Lane with Austin Kaluba
This week I will take you to the early eighties. I will confine my write ups to music since it defines a generation best. Come with me in a Zambia Railways train coach…
London Calling – Black celebrities face hostile White media
By Austin Kaluba ” America’s a funny place. They will forgive you anything, except being successful.” Said the Godfather of soul music the late James Brown. True to the black musician’s observation, success…
London Calling -Western Double Standards In Fighting Corruption
By Austin Kaluba The double standards of the West especially United States of America and the United Kingdom is nauseating. While condemning corruption in Africa, the West is part of the scam by…
LONDON CALLING THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE ZED-STYLE
Austin Kaluba So Rupiah Bwezani Banda has allocated more vehicles to the Zambia Police Service (Remember it used to be called Zambia Police Force) then policemen were unofficially allowed to beat suspects with…
Down Memory Lane with By Austin Kaluba
This week, I will take you down memory lane by chronicling the history of Zambia’s capital city Lusaka. For the bulk of information used here, I am greatly indebted to the National Heritage…
ELECTIONS COUNTDOWN
UK Zambian will continue updating you with the tripartite election campaign in Zambia as the clock (not the MMD clock symbol) ticks closer to September 20th when Zambians will cast their votes to…
Down Memory Lane with By Austin Kaluba
This week, I won’t take you far down memory lane to the 60’s. I will look at items in the 90’s and 2000 shortly after Frederick Chiluba had taken over power from Kenneth…
Choosing between the devil and the deep-blue sea.
BY AUSTIN KALUBA Zambia is a second-rate society with no direction both politically and economically. You don’t need a political scientists or an economist to see that the country is like a headless…
London calling – Colonialism has its benefits
By Austin Kaluba As Zambia celebrated Africa Freedom day on May 25 recently, I imagined what would have happened if we had allowed our colonial masters to be part of national development. I…
Down Memory Lane with By Austin Kaluba
This week I will look at miscellaneous pieces in Zambia of the old good days. Come with me down memory lane in the V8 engine orange Zam cab as we listen to Jimmy…
Zambia Elections 2011 countdown – The 8 probable presidential candidates
UK Zambian will continue briefing you on elections back home especially now that Rupiah Banda has finally announced the elections date -September 20th – 2011. There are 8 potential presidential candidates contesting this…
