Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:12:44 +0000 By Mwine Lubemba If you have been paying attention, you probably have seen the Made In Zambia-Buy Zambian adverts promoted by Zamtel featuring Jeff Sitali, Norena Chiteba and this nameless young school girl on YouTube—www.behance.net/Proud Zambians-Buy-Zambian-Zamtel. They remind me of the all too familiar staple of Zambian journalism back in the UNIP era when the Ministry of Trade and Industry was in the forefront of promoting the “Buy Zambian” campaign. Today, however, these adverts are a bitter reminder of how globalization has decimated the manufacturing sector in Zambia and turned the entire Zambian landscape a warehouse forest full of imported creatures, goods and gadgets. When we were growing up in Broken Hill renamed Kabwe later after Independence in 1964, I considered it a treat just to accompany my dad to go shopping in town from Bwacha compound where we lived. The shopping district was kept clean by council […]
