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Zambian, I love Zambian history. Follow for some interesting threads on Zambian past. I try to share info you won't find in textbooks.
Apr 17, 2023 17 tweets 4 min read
FACTS THAT WON'T CHANGE ABOUT PRIVATIZATION
#Thread Image Eugene Makai writes:
After the dust has settled from a more than 7 year campaign of deliberate and motivated propaganda over the sale of State assets during the MMD period of privatisation, it is import to put the facts right ( I've tried many times in the last 7 years).
Jan 1, 2023 37 tweets 6 min read
THE LEGENDARY LIONS OF LUWINGU
#Thread MANY Zambians who originate from Luwingu district of the Northern Province are often heard boasting that they come from a country where lions drive buses, leopards are the conductors and hyenas are the indicators on the vehicles.
Dec 22, 2022 40 tweets 7 min read
MATHEWS MOHAN – AND THE SAJID ITOWALA MURDER
#Thread CYCLONE HARDWARE Chief Executive Offi cer, Sajid Itowala was murdered in July 2009. His body was found dumped in his Toyota Landcruiser in Lusaka west.
May 10, 2022 17 tweets 4 min read
Where Barracks Of The Zambia Army Got Their Names
#Thread In Zambia when we talk of freedom fighters we talk of those who fought for independence.
May 4, 2022 24 tweets 5 min read
Vlahakis: The Greek Tribe of Africa
#Thread The name Vlahakis is widespread in Zambia, thanks to a brave Greek man from the island of Crete called Nikolaos Vlahakis who arrived in southern Africa at the end of the 19th century.
May 2, 2022 20 tweets 3 min read
KAUNDA FIRES MINISTER DETAINED BY UK POLICE AFTER WIFE'S ARREST FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
#Thread The wife of Zambian Defence Minister Wilson Mofya Chakulya, Mrs. Susan Chakulya was arrested in the United Kingdom on a drugs charge and produced at Dudley Crown Court.
Apr 27, 2022 27 tweets 5 min read
FACTS: GABON AIR DISASTER

Exactly 29years ago today, on the evening of 27 April 1993, a DHC-5 Buffalo transport aircraft of the Zambian Air Force crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Libreville, Gabon. Image The flight was carrying most of the Zambian national football team to a 1994 FIFA World Cup Qualifier against Senegal in Dakar. All 25 passengers and five crew members were killed Image
Apr 27, 2022 31 tweets 4 min read
KACHASU: A Menace to Society?
#Thread Amayi Ngulube, a toothless middle aged uneducated mother of 5, from the backwaters of Misisi township supports her children by brewing the illicit beer – kachasu.
Apr 26, 2022 15 tweets 3 min read
GLENDA & SIKOTA WINA & PRINCESS NAKATINDI AND INONGE WINA
#thread In the picture, we have Glenda Puteho McCoo and Inonge Wina, Zambia's Republican Vice President from 2015 to 2021
Mar 12, 2022 19 tweets 3 min read
When Rupiah Banda Ruled Namibia Rupiah Banda was indeed a solid diplomat with vast experience of managing conflicts and running countries. The man possessed such an admirable CV but he, unlike some people, never boasted about it.
Mar 8, 2022 27 tweets 4 min read
ADAMSON MUSHALA: A villain or a hero? Photo of Adamson Mushala Adamson Bratson Mushala was killed late in 1982 in a military ambush near Solwezi, in the remote reaches of Northwestern Province, where his bizarre story began with a post-independence dispute in the 1960's and ended with a bullet through the eye.
Mar 2, 2022 25 tweets 5 min read
Mukwae Nakatindi Yeta Nganga – ZAMBIA’S FORGOTTEN INDEPENDENCE HERO
#Thread Today when we talk of the people who stood up for the struggle of Zambla’s independence from the British we usually talk mainly male characters like Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe, Mainza Chona, Kenneth Kaunda etc and yet there is one woman who also sacrificed just as much.
Mar 1, 2022 14 tweets 3 min read
Lundazi Castle and Box ONE KANELE
#Thread Lundazi is a town in the Eastern Province of Zambia. It has a popular name “Box One Kanele” which people use when referring to Lundazi. The town also has the Lundazi Castle is without a doubt, one of the strangest sights in all of Zambia.
Feb 9, 2022 26 tweets 5 min read
Retracing the Alice Lenshina, The Lumpa Church and the Lumpa Uprising
#Thread THE story of Alice Mulenga Lenshina, the founder of the banned Lumpa Church, was feasted upon by the media within and outside the Southern African region from 1964 up to her demise in 1978
Feb 4, 2022 21 tweets 3 min read
The Zambian Exorcist Archbishop who married
#Thread Emmanuel Milingo (born June 13, 1930) was a former Roman Catholic archbishop from Zambia.
Feb 2, 2022 25 tweets 4 min read
Prodding The Nest Of The Black Mambas the Zero Option Plan Image LUSAKA, Apr 10 1996 (IPS) - Zambia’s government had put up a three million dollar reward for the capture of Black Mambas. These, however, were no ordinary brood of serpents.
Jan 21, 2022 22 tweets 5 min read
Mulungushi Rock of Authority: Synonymous with Zambia's Independence story
#Thread CENTRAL Province is a host to some noteworthy sites and events that significantly shaped the liberation struggle of Zambia. One such place is the Mulungushi Rock of Authority and is considered as the birthplace of Zambia's independence.
Jan 19, 2022 23 tweets 4 min read
CONSPIRACY THEORIES: The Controversial Barotse Agreement
#Thread ImageImage Resolving Barotse Agreement of 1964 has been on of the the biggest challengs each successive Zambian government has faced.
Jan 12, 2022 25 tweets 5 min read
Revenge of the Zambezi River God.
Myth, Fact or Legend?
#Thread African mythology of the local Tonga tribe of the Zambezi Valley states that Nyami Nyami the River God who lives in Lake Kariba is believed to be a serpent-like creature. He is said to be about three metres wide, but nobody dares to guess at his length.
Jan 8, 2022 35 tweets 5 min read
The Occult Mystery of Chiengi and the Horror of Chiengi Charlie
#Thread Back in the day, Chiengi was the only only BOMA (British Overseas Military Administration) closed down because of witchcraft or more accurately because nobody wanted to be there.
Jan 7, 2022 25 tweets 5 min read
TWIGEE LEE, The terror of Kitwe, with his ruthless thugs in the 80's

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N.B. please note that images are for illustration purposes only Image One of the most notorious thugs to walk the streets of Kitwe was Twigee Lee, an unbelievably violent small fellow who lived in Chamboli township in the 1980s.
He used to live with his grandmother before he went to live with his fellow gangsters.