ONLY a few weeks ago this platform took its hats off to Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) for airing a documentary ‘Man from Lubwa (Kaunda early years)’ on April 28 that marked the 92nd birthday...

By SAM PHIRI  – A FEW days ago, one of the world’s acclaimed Rumba giants Papa Wemba was put to rest at a flamboyant funeral procession in the DRC capital Kinshasa. One would have mistaken...

By THANDIWE MOYO – CHEZ Ntemba management has confirmed that one of Africa’s top music ensembles known as Extra Musica will be coming to perform at the joint soon. Though keeping the exact date of...

JUST the name ‘Charles Mando’ evokes profound memories of one man ranked among Zambia’s finest broadcasters who inimitably defined hard eyeball to eyeball interviews. Who would miss the then Zambia Broadcasting Services’   Charles Mando’s Sunday...

WHENEVER Manasseh Phiri joins Karen Nakawala on the latter’s Sunday Mellow Madness programme on Radio Phoenix, placid fills the airwaves. Dr Phiri fused in the programme that was already running with ease last Sunday, explaining...

OVER time, he had become another lay about hanging around bottle stores including the watering hole looking out for what the day offered. He was a product of a redundant generation that bemoaned lack ofjobs...

Everything was getting rather confused. Something was totally out of place. Somehow, this stranger of a girl who started this game by handing me some Kwacha note on the day I played brilliantly in goal...

Dear ardent readers of ‘Poets and Poems’ column, I did not know and I guess you too did not know that at Makerere University in Uganda, Kampala, 700 people recently met with an addition of...

By CHIPEMA SAKAIMBO – KAFUE-BASED music artiste Jimmy Kapala known for appreciating women in most of his songs is back again with a single track titled ‘Mutima Wangu’. Jimmy of the ‘It’s Over Over’ fame...

By CHIPEMA SAKAIMBO – Multi-AWARD winning and celebrated Zambian gospel artistes Pompi, Mag44 and Abel Chungu have been nominated in this year’s Kenya Gospel Music Awards. This is the first time the Zambian Gospel giants...