We need to appreciate Kenneth Kaunda more

"People easily forget and ignore a persons hard work, but you can never erase the past he created for the present you are living in"

Its been bothering me for a while now

Some people wonder why there free!!!

Why they have parties so strong that they can have freedom to vote for a president they want,

Some have forgotten the years spent in exile, to live among fellow Africans to be free.,

Not just a home away from home,

but a home and a family they can depend on,

a family they can be defended by the evils of a struggle for freedom,

I think some have forgotten, and many walk over the pain the struggles of our hero KK,

A man who risked everything for the love of helping people to be free,

Even the only family he called family "Zambia" people,

He risked his peoples love, to let others be free,

"why do you think food prices rose in the 80's in Zambia?

All borders where closed, all colonialist countries around us did not let Zambia export or use the rail way system out side its borders.

This is the price for the struggle of freedom,

How many leaders of today lived in Mtendere teaching, or in Lilanda with fellow Zambians?

Building a government of their own,

Building a future together for Africa to be Free,

Super K believes that "peace is humanity's most pressing priority",

Therefore the "people of Zambia must endure and continued to accept refugees from their neighbors",

I guess that's the price we pay for freedom.

and helping others be free.

But a thank you and recognition to the real people on the ground who worked hard would have been nice,

not licking leaders butt who don't understand or know what happened in the fight for freedom.

A great thanks to these freedom fighters:

Simon Kapwepwe,

Jomo Kenyatta,

Samora Machel,

Patrice Lumumba

Steve Biko,

Desmond Tutu,

Josina Machel,

Julius Nyerere,

Kwame Nkrumah, 

Agostinho Neto,

Robert Mugabe (even if he has messed up, we cannot erase what he did too)

Che Guevara (the work he did in Congo DRC)

Remember: "People easily forget and ignore a persons hard work, but you can never erase the past he created for the present you are living in" 

I am truly hurt today as a Zambian

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PS: naimwe abena Zambia, Muleke ifyaupuba, tampeni ukutasha abantu benu!!

African Vs African

African pride....remember when countries had trouble because of racism? what did our people do, we were united. we had countries like zimbabwe, mozambique, botswana and zambia taking in foreigners in order to train them and get them ready for a struggle of freedom. History makes people change. a generation gone and we all forget what our people did. its a shame, a very big shame. that is why africa will never develop with this type of mentality.

I got an article from a website just now. i mean we have XENOPHOBIA with our own people??? what kind of africans are we? with no further comment here is the article:

"There was a spate of attacks against foreigners in South African townships in May 2008. The attacks originated in the township of Alexandria which is an impoverished suburb in the city of Johannesburg. Social tension is high, because of the influx of foreigners into South African in recent years, most notably 2–4 million Zimbabweans (roughly a quarter of the population of Zimbabwe). The South African government seems unwilling or unable to enforce border control. In additions to the porous borders, the South African Department of Home Affairs –tasked with matters of immigration– are slow and inefficient at processing asylum seekers creating many loopholes for unscrupulous immigrants who simply apply for refugee status in order to obtain the necessary permits to then work and move freely in South Africa. These foreigners are in direct competition for jobs and living space with the poorest citizens. Many incidents of crime are also blamed on these desperate foreigners. 22 Foreigners were reportedly killed in the attacks with roads barricaded and police battling with the protesters." extract from: http://multimedia.thetimes.co.za/photos/2008/05/flames-of-hate/

Now with this in mind, does it give anyone the right to kill, burn people just because they dont belong to your country? what about the fredoom fighters who lived in zimbabwe when south africa was in trouble and faced apartheid regime...did they get treated like this? South africa is not the only country facing these problems. Zambia faced the same problem some months ago with kenyans, but it wasnt to this extent. i know people get scared when foreigners start taking jobs away from us, look at how zambia is? the whole country is owned by foreigners (chinese, lebanese and etc). Zambia even has alot of south african companies running here, we do not burn people, it angers me because people forget history quickly. This goes for every other african country, when an african owns something in another country we get all defensive and angry, we even go to the extent of saying that they are using juju (witchcraft). In fact these africans are the ones who are developing our continent, but if you get investors from overseas it becomes okay!!! what about the money they are taking away??? think about it. lets stop this xenophobic acts and lets work together because together will achieve better. Lets make the government put in laws that protect our people but at the same time lets help foreigners.

People dont judge people, But History will judge people....
What you do today will affect what will be done to you tomorrow....

Kadoko