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"Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no one can fail to take a pride in his country's participation in the story of mankind, as represented in carvings, sculpture, music, paintings and the other arts. And there is a personal commitment to this, for no man can really say he is alone: we are all joined through our identity, with the cultures which are part of the mainstream of life"
- Simon Kapwepwe, Zambian Independence Freedom Fighter

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm" - Winston Churchill

"Try to be the rainbow in someone else's cloud" - Maya Angelou

"Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinion drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition" - Steve Jobs








Showing posts with label Tourism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tourism. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Proudly Zambian InstaStoryteller

This dress was originally a Men's XL shirt that was trimmed with Zambeef Zamleathe &  turned
into a shirt dress by designer Musha and styled by Mafashio. This picture was taken
during the Livingstone leg of #ZambeefInYourTown. Photo credit PR Girl
I joined Instagram this year, and have found it to be a great way to be a visual storyteller beyond the realm of film, as well as an awesome possum way to document life in Zambia and/ or during my travels.

Twit Tuesday will have to evolve from just Twitter stuff I want to post on the blog, to curating anything on social media where I microblog, so Facebook will be included too henceforth.

Thought I would introduce my instapix through the life changing national tour that Zambeef sponsored. I always dreamed e18hteam would get to be seen by Zambians both in urban AND rural areas, as the story of the Chipolopolo is that of Zambia.  It belongs to all of her citizens and so it was only right I find a way for them to see it.  The sponsorship ensured that a cinetruck took it to them on the big screen for free!  I got to travel the country again, and during my sojourns, this peripatetic turned amateur photographer documented life around Zambia.  I also fulfilled a personal goal of visiting all ten provinces, as during my stint as TV Presenter, I only managed to get my total up to eight. I finally made it to Western and Luapula Provinces. It was a real privilege, and the warmth of the people and their embracing of the film with open arms will stay with me forever.

Hard to do, but I picked my favourite photo from each leg of the trip:

Kabwe, Central Province


Chingola, Copperbelt Province (Kopala)

A photo posted by Ngosa Whoopi Chungu (@whoops.c) on

Kitwe, Copperbelt Province (Kopala)

A photo posted by Ngosa Whoopi Chungu (@whoops.c) on

Kaoma, Western Province (Kwa Hae)


Mongu, Western Province (Kwa Hae)


Choma, Southern Province

A photo posted by Ngosa Whoopi Chungu (@whoops.c) on

Livingstone, Southern Province

A photo posted by Ngosa Whoopi Chungu (@whoops.c) on  

Chipata, Eastern Province


Mansa, Luapula Province


Lusaka, Lusaka Province (Capital City of Zambia)

A photo posted by Ngosa Whoopi Chungu (@whoops.c) on

Chongwe, Lusaka Province

A photo posted by Ngosa Whoopi Chungu (@whoops.c) on  

For more pictures check out me out on Instagram and live tweeted documentation of trip has been curated in #ZambeefInYourTown.

For more about my journey this year and to keep up-to-date with everything going on with the film, as well my other projects in Zambia and globally, follow me on Facebook  too.
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Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Siavonga Music Festival

Sundown, Siavonga aboard the
Southern Belle, Easter 2013
I spent last Easter on the Southern Belle, Protea's Hotel Boat on Lake Kariba in Siavonga.  I enjoyed a coupla sunsets on the water downing some rather tasty rainbow coloured sundowner cocktails.  This year,  to tempt me to make the trip down again on Easter weekend is the Siavonga Music Festival.

On Saturday, the Festival organisers gave us a taste of what is in store with a preview of some of their acts at Arcades Mall in Lusaka, including the classic Zed sound of recent Zambian Music Award winner Mumba Yachi, and Cactus Agony, an artist whom I have featured on the blog before.  The only disappointment was not getting a taste of what Pompi has in store, another artist already featured on the blog.  

Enjoy a song each from each of these artists and for more information about the Siavonga Music Festival in April, visit their website and for more Zed Music check out the music and African music and tag on MbA:






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Tuesday, 13 August 2013

MUNTU Y Zed Series: To Zed With Love Part I


I get really excited about things to do with positive promotion of my country and/ or the continent.  So I was really thrilled when we found out last year that Zambia would be co-hosting the UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organisation) General Assembly.  In two weeks the whole world will be descending upon us! This is such a great opportunity for Zambia to show what a hidden gem of a destination it is.  I have lived in Kenya, one of the premier tourism destinations in Africa and the world: they are such good salesmen that they can aggrandise coupla national parks and the beach like no one’s business.  Zambia is far more blessed with sunken lakes, caves with rock art, over 3000 heritage sites and a plethora of waterfalls.  It is located smack bang in the middle of Southern Africa and yet we are completely overlooked for South Africa, another country whose publicity is so good, yet still pales in comparison to actual stuff to see.  People globally still don’t know that the majority of the Vic Falls actually cascades on the Zambian side, yet Zim have co-opted all the kudos!

Instead of standing by and letting this continue, I have decided to use my established proclivity to veer in the direction of deranged and confused behaviour for the good of my nation.  I will not have Zimbabwe benefit more from this conference and have decided to take publicity into my own hands.  This undertaking was inspired by conversations with strangers, many of whom recognize me from my work on TV and know that I am interested in our natural beauteous resources.  They have come up to me and told me to keep up my good work and have let me know they would like to know more about what earthly gifts we have around the country and more about what the UNWTO means for Zambia.

After realizing that I was inadvertently objectifying minority races (yes when black people are the majority, they can forget that they too can be the dominant race and can offend, discriminate and make people feel uncomfortable when you single them out) by trying to single out muzungus, mwenyes and coloureds so that I could have representation across the board, I went out and interviewed people on the street who were very eager to share the knowledge they did have and what they would like to know.  Unfortunately I had a digital videocamera that used tape so I have to figure out how to convert that to a digital format to share.

So I then regrouped and decided to create a Flash mob at Levy Junction Mall, as they have such a lovely area in the middle of the ground floor, and the building is really pretty and has a skylight ceiling: lots of natural light to easily illuminate we black folk.  So on Sunday I co-opted my company, PurpleTembo Media’s social media and Mukuka lent C1rca 1964’s and on Monday I executed my plan.  

People actually came up and said is this what we heard about on Twitter and I was like YES!!!! this can work in Zed and got youth to do a call and response to show we are #ProudlyZambian and ready to welcome the world.

Rebel 101: Don't go to prison and be
forced to wear a horrible orange
jumpsuit.  If you happen to mess
with authority rock an orange chitenge
print dress instead ;}
Management saw a crowd gathering and asked what I was doing with my little digicam and I explained and said it would only be a minute.  Then when it ended they said I would have to pay K1000 for such and that they didn’t think we’d make so much noise and after calmly explaining I didn’t mean to cause anybody and was not trying to hoodwink anyone, I was asked to vacate the premises with immediate effect.  As I was trying to give the participants the K10 each for their services security approached us, probably fearing we’d start hollering again, disbanded us and walked me out, and not in the direction of my car mind you.  So I went and bought talk time for participants who preferred that to cash and walked back in 5 minutes later and proceeded to get me a smoothie at Food Lover’s Market.  Pawpaw, pineapple, and strawberry yogurt mmmm mmm mmmm.

Was it worth it, hell yeah! Would I do it again, in a heart beat! ANYTHING FOR MOTHER ZAMBIA!!! VIC FALLS!!! UNWTO!!! he he he he ;}

Duncan, a MUNTU I interviewed last year is representive of youth doing things within the rules on a larger scale.  Check out his event for release of a UNWTO Mixtape in collaboration with Zim.
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