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The cathedral doors were slowly closing and Jumo managed to slip between them before they shut. The androids manning the cathedral doors looked at him blankly. He instinctively begged their [...]

Chanza is a girl who lives in a beautiful town in Ndola. She lives with her mother, father and her younger brothers. She loves her family. She also has a grandmother whom she loves very much. Her [...]

Every day the sounds of hammering could be heard in the garage next to the house. Andrew knew who was causing it. It was his father. His father was a kind of super-scientist. That was how [...]

Indomitable. A lion among men. I know a man with a ball at his feet. Blue and red striped at this stage, His heart is unrolled and his sleeves, the opposite. His roar and his lion’s mane, echo [...]

Landing at Maputo International Airport for the first time, the temperature was so high and my body was sweating. I thought of removing the pullover that I put on while at Oliver Tambo [...]

Towela stared at the clear blue sky, with occasional clouds. The sun was bright, but the cool green grass she lay on kept her cool. It had been raining a few hours ago and like magic, the rain [...]

I have always thought of life as a scam. How we are suddenly tasked with the notion that life is in our hands immediately after birth is baffling. It took me a while to understand this, but the [...]

Something about the shadow and finding a black cat Something about white on rice Stars and the firmament Black clouds and the rain The sun and what it makes plain how the invisible dances, [...]

The Last And The Least Born in the danger zone The moment you blink you’re gone They learn to live on the edge From a very tender age On life’s compassionate list They rank as the last and the [...]

Introduction We were all very excited to hear that Zambia had attained significant socio-economic progress and achieved a middle-income status in 2011. That was a promising headline and still is, [...]