RUMINATIONS [On Lusaka’s Streets, an African’s Journey]_____________

RUMINATIONS [On Lusaka’s Streets, an African’s Journey] _____________ THE other day, I was having coffee at the Eastpark MALL, a present-day fixture of Capitalism and materialism, a somewhat required evil. Noteworthy is that it was coffee that Zambia didn’t grow, a dollar lost. As the aroma of that coffee wafted onto my nostrils, jolting my brain into heightened alertness, I reflected at just how dominant foreign goods were in Zambia’s economy. Jobs lost. Capital flight. Low per capita income. Poverty. A deluge of thoughts hit me. I fought back a tear. The coffee done, I found myself on Thabo MBEKI...