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Musonda Mumba
  • May 25, 2020
  • 3 min

Africa O Africa – Yes we eat these insects – Mother Africa’s Healing Foods.

December 2019. I travelled for nearly 1,000km to take my children to my home town of Mansa, in northern Zambia which isn’t that far from ...

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Musonda Mumba
  • Mar 10, 2020
  • 2 min

Remembering Victor Tsang: A UNEP Champion for all things Sustainability and SDGs.

March 10th, 2019. A pretty normal Sunday. A work day for most of the UN Environment colleagues because this weekend marked the pre-meetin...

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Musonda Mumba
  • Jan 30, 2020
  • 4 min

Why, what you utter matters. Period.

Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out – Anonymous. A few years ago, I sat in a meeting where a colleague lost his temper. ...

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Musonda Mumba
  • Jan 13, 2020
  • 4 min

You are only as BUSY as you claim to be – spare a moment for young people.

In my late 20s I participated in a conference where an amazing line up of speakers gave their presentations about their environmental wor...

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Musonda Mumba
  • Oct 22, 2019
  • 7 min

The Power of my SheVillage: How this has been relevant to both my professional and personal life.

Growing up in rural Zambia, my memory of a SheVillage comes from being raised by two grandmothers – maternal and paternal. Their sense of...

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Musonda Mumba
  • Oct 10, 2019
  • 4 min

Wisdom in the corridor: Water, exercise, healthy food, time and sleep all matter for a good career.

When I left home, Zambia, in my mid-20s to move to Switzerland, I had no clue what relocation meant for your mind, body and spirit. I arr...

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Musonda Mumba
  • Aug 4, 2019
  • 5 min

Role of cultural keepers in the conservation and restoration of African Landscapes.

The picture that you see here is a picture of the over 300 year old traditional ceremony that takes place in part of my birth country, in...

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Musonda Mumba
  • Jul 20, 2019
  • 3 min

HOME: How its changed and why restoration matters especially for Africa.

This Blue Dot right here viewed from the moon fifty years ago - is HOME. The Earthrise picture was spectacular. In fact, the astronauts o...

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Musonda Mumba
  • Jul 8, 2019
  • 4 min

Restoration and conservation are about nourishing and nurturing spaces: Lessons from my stepmother.

Growing up as a teenager in my home town of Mansa, Zambia, I watched in awe every time I came back from school how my amazing late stepmo...

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Musonda Mumba
  • Jun 11, 2019
  • 5 min

The fierce urgency of NOW – why faith, spiritual and indigenous leaders are pivotal for restoration.

A priest. A Sikh. A Rabbi. An Indigenous Leader. A Singer. A Neuroscientist. A Reverend. A UN Diplomat. A Poet. A Muslim leader. A Buddhi...

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Musonda Mumba
  • May 30, 2019
  • 3 min

Dear Airlines, can YOU please reduce this single-use plastics on your flights?

Dear Airline companies, I am back again to my travels after several weeks of recess - well a moment to regroup, think, work, recover and ...

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Musonda Mumba
  • May 1, 2019
  • 5 min

The power & challenge of inclusivity when disasters hit: learning from Cyclones Idai & Kenneth.

One of the best memories of my childhood growing up in rural Zambia was my interaction with Aunt Elizabeth. As toddlers, my twin sister a...

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Musonda Mumba
  • Apr 23, 2019
  • 2 min

The POWER of the Collective - World Earth Day 2019

On 22nd April, it was World Earth Day. I have been very fortunate to have worked in many parts of the world, participated in several con...

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Musonda Mumba
  • Feb 25, 2019
  • 5 min

Spreading my wings Part 1: Sweden – Europe 101, discovering fish and those in between spaces.

A few months ago, while decluttering my home I came across some amazing pictures of my first ever trip to Europe – Sweden to be precise. ...

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Musonda Mumba
  • Feb 7, 2019
  • 4 min

Lesson: Your Voice matters, no matter how young you are.

As I navigated my space on the Kafue River, I realized just how complex my fatherland Zambia really was. I mean I watched snakes slither ...

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Musonda Mumba
  • Jan 31, 2019
  • 3 min

This river of green was a near disaster for this Zambian River system.

And so perhaps I should continue with the story of the boat. Once I started on my new job at Environmental Council of Zambia (ECZ), I had...

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Musonda Mumba
  • Jan 24, 2019
  • 4 min

Yes, this is she.

In 1995 after I graduated from the University of Zambia, several months later (with no job in sight) I reached out to one of my mentors D...

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Musonda Mumba
  • Jan 19, 2019
  • 5 min

My Zambian childhood lessons from tilling the land – why earth connections matter.

On this my first blog post on my reflections as a Black African female environmentalist, I can’t quite pinpoint when my interest in the e...

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