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Infant baboons look very different from adult baboons and in some ways resemble human infants. For example, instead of being covered with fur, their...

Business Values for our Time is an over 300 paged book authored by consultant and entrepreneur Chibamba Kanyama. It has four parts spread across twenty-one chapters. Part one of the book focuses on Zambian tribal cultures as well as Indian and Jewish cultural ethics. In part two, the book deals with mainly mechanics and dynamics of investments, loans, borrowing culture and most interestingly chapter nine deals with the question of managing relatives. In part three, the book takes the stories of various Zambian entrepreneurs and derives various theories and values that have made them successful. In part four, Mr. Kanyama discusses various issues to do with attributes and culture for the business entrepreneur.

Friendship in humans is complex and multi-dimension, making friendship hard to define but a number of qualities are often used to distinguish friendship. These...

By Daimone Siulapwa The ruling party, the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) seems to be celebrating the happenings in the PF-UPND Pact. Well, understandable. The...

By Henry Kyambalesa In an article entitled “Give Us Time to Finish Projects,” which appeared in the Times of Zambia of 4th October 2010, President...

The author of the book, It’s How We End That Matters: Leadership Lessons from an African President, Martin Kalungu-Banda is not new to Zambia. He has been a lecturer at UNZA, worked for BP Zambia, OXFAM and famously had a stint at State House from 2005 to 2008. At State House he served in an ambiguous role as President Mwanawasa’s leadership consultant or unpaid Chief of Staff as the case may be. The greater nation of Zambia got introduced to Martin Kalungu-Banda by President Mwanawasa himself who praised his effort of making personal sacrifices to try and help the top Zambian government workers improve their leadership. He is currently a leadership consultant and this book is his second. A third book is still in the works.

By Wesley Ngwenya I have been privileged to have previously participated in the Population and Housing Census of 1990. I was only grade eleven by...

Nepotism is one virus that has crept all levels of Zambian society. It is in our schools, churches, workplaces, in our cities, rural areas and just about everywhere. It is worse in government and state run companies. Since many of these senior managers are hired using the same virus, they also tend to use the same methods to hire their own. There is a classic example in the recent government sold ZAMTEL to LAP Green of Libya. A whole extended family lost their jobs. There were uncles, aunties, fathers, sons, daughters, cousins, and nephews—the whole clan. I feel sorry for them although many of them got an unfair advantage over many other Zambians who were qualified and could have performed their lost jobs better perhaps.