In my junior high school days at Kabulonga Boys Secondary School, I had a classmate who had a hearing impairment (found it difficult to hear). As a result of this physical limitation, he always sat in the front row desk directly in the center of the classroom and paid close attention to the teacher to…

I recently visited two greenfield projects in the Luapula province of Zambia. These were the Kawambwa Tea and Mununshi Banana estates. These were fledging industries established during 1970’s but had been shut down. However, these plantations are being revamped under Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) Ltd and are currently at different stages of progression. I had…

I recently had a work encounter which unfortunately didn’t go as planned. I had done the groundwork for this project up to a certain point then waited for the perfect time to start working on it. And the perfect time I thought to myself at the time was when the client would officially communicate to…

On 6th October 2021, I undertook a company sales visit to Luapula province of Zambia in which among other places, I visited Mununshi Banana Estate in Mwense district and Kawambwa Tea Plantation in Kawambwa district. At the banana estate, I noticed that the plants were growing in clusters. Each cluster had one fully grown plant…