“I slept with a dead man to get pregnant”: mother tells how she suffered to conceive. Reagan Phiri, a farmer from Chongwe, Zambia, married Angela Tembo in 1999. Angela Tembo was unable to conceive despite the advice of several doctors and healers. According to Angela Tembo, her inability to conceive had affected her for years, a situation made worse by the in-laws pushing Reagan into divorce. “These people looked at me with accusing eyes as if I had committed a sin that could not be forgiven. The neighbors called me all the bad names of birds, my husband was pressured...

ON SOVEREIGNTY [The Curious Case of Hakainde HICHILEMA’s Mind Bent] ______________ We may be black but trust us. We too know things. Besides, let us respect our flag. Black is there for a reason. As we keep saying, knowledge is neither British, Chinese nor American. It isn’t even African. It is universal. We told Hakainde HICHILEMA to maintain subsidies on agriculture/food and energy. He did NOT listen. Instead, he listened to the IMF as if this was their country. As instructed by the IMF, he removed the subsidies. And the suffering began. Abandoning his own pre-election promises, he opted to...