By Proff. Mwine LubembaTHE extended family is an essential part of Zambian culture. For the second time in less than a year, we gathered for another funeral last week.A professional fumigation company assisted to fumigate the house before and after the funeral gathering. Strict masking up and social distancing was observed.Mourners sat one meter apart in the garden making it clumsy to have a tete-a-tete conversation. It was easy to eavesdrop on any discussion.I was particularly attracted to loud boisterous discussions by a group of nephews and their friends who were meeting for the first time after a long while whom, from the number of empty bottles under their chairs, I suspected were drunk on Black Label Whiskey.It was also easy to tell political alienations too. My nephew, a scandalous popular social media local newsmaker, name withheld, an associate professor in development economics at Cape Town University did not pretend to hide his empirically unsupported […]
THE REAL MR HAKAINDE HICHILEMA
