By MUBANGA LUCHEMBEIN ancient Chinese philosophy, yin and yang is a concept of dualism, describing how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another; is the Wikipedia dictionary’s definition of yin and yang.Call ethno-politics, if you like as Zambia’s yin and yang. For every gut-wrenching atrocity and calamity that Zambia faces there is an equally powerful reaffirmation of all that can be right.In 2016, the “non-Bantu Botatwe” people from all over the country were harassed and hounded out of their dwellings around Namwala in a sickening post-election wave of xenophobic violence. But ultimately it was the rest of Zambians themselves who quelled the fires. Going back a few years – four to be exact – moderate “Bantu Botatwe” who provided shelter for those internally-displaced “non-Bantu Botatwe” in this rural setting risked and […]
WILL THE UPND NATIONAL CONVENTION BE A CLEANUP SWEEP?
