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...
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...
March 10th, 2019. A pretty normal Sunday. A work day for most of the UN Environment colleagues because this weekend marked the...
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....
In my late 20s I participated in a conference where an amazing line up of speakers gave their presentations about their environmental...
Growing up in rural Zambia, my memory of a SheVillage comes from being raised by two grandmothers – maternal and paternal. Their sense of...
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...
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...
This Blue Dot right here viewed from the moon fifty years ago - is HOME. The Earthrise picture was spectacular. In fact, the astronauts...
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...
A priest. A Sikh. A Rabbi. An Indigenous Leader. A Singer. A Neuroscientist. A Reverend. A UN Diplomat. A Poet. A Muslim leader. A...
Dear Airline companies, I am back again to my travels after several weeks of recess - well a moment to regroup, think, work, recover and...
One of the best memories of my childhood growing up in rural Zambia was my interaction with Aunt Elizabeth. As toddlers, my twin sister...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...