Category: Gender & health

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 YOUTH Vision Zambia (YVZ) Executive Director Amos Mwale has called on financial lending institutions to provide other innovative resources to cater for the young people. Youth Vision wants the Zambian Government to heed pleas seeking introduction of a Youth Bank. Mr. Mwale said that the move by lending institutions to reduce the lending conditions was a welcome which needed to be complimented by introduction of innovative resources  targeted at young people. “Young people want to venture in business but stiff scared to borrow from these lending institutions as collateral conditionalities make...

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 ZIMBA is one of the small but largely expanded villages in Mufulira District on the Copperbelt Province with so many activities happening in the community A Zimba community resident Doris Mwansa complained that the former Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) Government did not deliver to there expectation when it was still in power especially when it came to empowering vulnerable communities. “Our village is big and when one dies we have to keep that person till the day of burial. When people die they have to put them in the house...

By Derrick Sinjela published on Monday 11th July 2011 MANAGER Membership Advisory Services (MMAS) Fransis Njang’iru holds a view that men’s unhealthy choices families and the entire community. In an interview with the author in Lusaka, Zambia,  NJang’iru said health educators needed specific knowledge and skills for addressing men’s cultural beliefs. Njang’ru said gender specific skills and knowledge must be made integral to development of communication skills at national, regional, continental and global levels. “In Africa, there are many cultural barriers that prevent men from taking some key positive health decisions. Men are the key drivers of Sexually Transmitted Diseases...

By Derrick Sinjela published Monday 11th July 2011 THE Zambia Association of Children with Disabilities (ZACD) has noted that parents blessed with children born with disability face challenges of stigmatization and discrimination. According to ZACD Committee Member Astridah Kaunda said 50 percent of parents and guardians of children born with disabilities faced the challenging prospect of divorce as men blamed their wives for the disability of their child. “Parents and guardians of children born with disabilities face a lot of challenges like stigmatization and discrimination in society. In a home, a man blames a wife for having a child with...

By Itai Muchena, Reading Politics, Ohio State University, US AFRICOM and the Recolonization of Africa The Legacy of the Berlin Conference of 1884 by Itai Muchena The hodgepodge of geometric boundaries that today divide Africa into 50 plus irregular nations under Eurocentric subjugation all started in Berlin, Germany on November 15, 1884. The infamous Berlin Conference still remains Africa’s greatest undoing in more ways than one, where colonial powers superimposed their domains on the African continent and tore apart the social, political and economic fabric that held the continent together. By the time independence returned to Africa between 1956 and 1994,...