Zambia Quotes

“In families one can’t choose one’s siblings. Within regions one doesn’t choose one’s neighbors. And if you are one of the world’s leading producers of a critical industrial resource like copper, in the end you can’t really choose your customers. China and Zambia will just have to get along.”
― Howard W. French, China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa

“There is a madman who lives on the road to Mkushi. Every full moon he comes out onto the tarmac and digs a deep trench across the road. Dad would like to find the madman and bring him back to the farm. 'Think what a strong bugger he is, eh?' 'Yes, but you could only get him to work when there was a full moon.' 'Which is twice as hard as any other Zambian.”
― Alexandra Fuller, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

“Aspire to do anything, start something and stop at nothing.”
― Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“Don't be in the Money Making Business; be in the Business Making Money.”
― Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“Partnership is nonsense. Germany helping Zambia, that is not partnership. That is a superior economic system helping another country improve itself. And that is also what late colonialism was: An embrace of the opportunity to improve the lot of others. But not as equals, no”
― Bruce Gilley

“A Motswana in Zambia or Zimbabwe was referred to as gwerekwere and so was a Zimbabwean or Zambian in Botswana. Post-colonialism tragedy.”
― Thabo Katlholo, The Mud Hut I Grew Upon

“Nobody can do you better than you do you.”
― Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“I have never seen a generation of people so eager for a paycheck, but lazy to work for earnings. A people that will complain about the realities they rightly have power to change, but choose to ignore. And, worse a culture of bickering for what could be, when in reality, is.

It is my hope that the future will be more intelligent, focused and ready for action, just as those that see what can be changed, but have no power to make the change, TODAY for a better TOMORROW!!”
― Andrew-Knox B Kaniki