Word: lewanika
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...have never been present at this kind of event, where you actually try to experience what the people go through,” Ambassador Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika said. “I hope that you can spread this kind of sensitivity not only around the United States but around the globe...
Mbikusita-Lewanika said that western attempts to industrialize Africa have resulted in the loss of indigenous mastery of land cultivation, leading to villages that are less able to support themselves in ways they could afford. And Western relief efforts are either too focused on urban areas or mishandled by corrupt governments, and thus fail to alleviate the problems...
...solution, according to Mbikusita-Lewanika, is to work with countries to cooperatively solve their problems, and to eliminate redundancy in foreign relief agencies...
...Godwin Lewanika, 65, who succeeded to the throne in 1968, is the ceremonial leader of Zambia's 300,000 Lozis. His predecessors struggled to preserve a degree of Lozi autonomy from the encroachments of Kenneth Kaunda's central government, but Lewanika is a realist and gave up the battle. A former mine clerk and union organizer, Lewanika twice a year leads one of Africa's most impressive ceremonies-the journey of the Lozis from the 4,000-sq.-mi. flood plain (where they farm and fish from July to March) to the higher lands at the forest...
Last week crocodiles still infested the Zambezi as Barotseland's latest Litunga, Sir Mwamawina Lewanika III, 75, entertained his new overlord. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, one of Africa's newest and most moderate leaders, wanted to make a good impression on the province he had inherited five months ago when Northern Rhodesia became independent. Kaunda accompanied the Litunga to the royal barge, where Sir Mwamawina switched his garb-from a frock coat, striped trousers and pearl-grey topper to the Royal Navy uniform his father had worn...