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HIV/AIDS to Corona Virus: Historical Perspective by a Zambian by Mwizenge S. Tembo, Ph. D. Professor of Sociology
Introduction I was doing my Ph. D. in Sociology in the United States under the sponsored scholarship of the famous University of Zambia Staff Development Fellowship. The year was 1983. The news was buzzing and spreading like wild fire. A … read more
A Letter From Dr. Tembo
I am thrilled to be in touch with you. I feel blessed to have had numerous opportunities over the last 30 years to do work that helps people in communities here in the United States but more especially in Zambia … read more
Book Review – The Zwangendaba Mpezeni Ngoni: History and Migrations, Settlements and Culture.
Yizenge Chondoka, The Zwangendaba Mpezeni Ngoni: History and Migrations, Settlements and Culture, Lusaka, Academic Press, 2017, 148 pages, Hardcover, $32.00 (K411.00) BOOK REVIEW – in Memory of Dr Yizenge Chondoka by Mwizenge S. Tembo, Ph. D Professor of Sociology Introduction … read more
My Take on the Warriors NBA Dynasty
by Mwizenge S. Tembo, Ph. D. Professor of Sociology When the Toronto Raptors won the first game in the NBA finals, all hell broke loose with wild predictions; “the Warriors are dead” and I am sure the Toronto players were … read more
Wode Maya: the Great Advocate for Africa Nearly Killed
by Mwizenge S. Tembo, Ph. D. Professor of Sociology I have avoided terrible addictions since 1960. I have never been addicted to beer, work, smoking, girls and women, food, politics, cell phones, the internet and many other things on this … read more
Echoes of the Goma Lakes: “Why they behave as UNZA students”
BOOK REVIEW by Mwizenge S. Tembo, Ph. D Professor of Sociology Joseph Mwenge Katapa, Echoes of the Goma Lakes: “Why they behave as UNZA students”, Lusaka, DNK publishers Zambia, 62 pages, Paperback, K100.00 Introduction One chilly morning class period at … read more
Obstacles to Zambian African Indigenous Epistemology by Mwizenge S. Tembo, Ph. D. Professor of Sociology
I have a confession as well as frustration. I wonder if I am the only Zambian intellectual today my age (in the 60s) who has this perspective. When I went to UNZA in my first year in 1972, when I … read more
Zambian Christmas Carol
by Mwizenge S. Tembo, Ph. D. Professor of Sociology My Zambian Christmas Carol goes back to 1959 to the very earliest Christmas I can remember when I was a child at Chipewa village with my grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins and … read more
UNZA Student Tragic Death Should not be in Vain
by Mwizenge S. Tembo, Ph. D. Professor of Sociology *In Memory of Vespers Shimuzhila* It was dark and I was asleep in my room in Africa 5 Room 26. An irritating smell woke me up from my deep sleep. I … read more
The Last Hunt – Chisokole Part 2
by Mwizenge S. Tembo, Ph. D. Professor of Sociology Late in the afternoon as the sun was about to set, two exhausted dogs with small bloody scratches all over their faces, and still breathing very rapidly with their tongues hanging … read more