Eugene Makai writes:
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.
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.
In Zambia when we talk of freedom fighters we talk of those who fought for independence.
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.
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.
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 
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.
In the picture, we have Glenda Puteho McCoo and Inonge Wina, Zambia's Republican Vice President from 2015 to 2021
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Emmanuel Milingo (born June 13, 1930) was a former Roman Catholic archbishop from Zambia.
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.
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.
Resolving Barotse Agreement of 1964 has been on of the the biggest challengs each successive Zambian government has faced.
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.
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.
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.
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