By JOWIT SALUSEKI – THAPEZA theatre club last weekend treated fun-lovers at Lusaka Play House to a play titled Mwaziona. Centered on a village set up, the gist of the story in this eight cast...

One of the prime objectives of this column from inception was to create space for debate and literary discourses among academics, writers, students and poets. Several months down the road, the written responses generally have...

JACOB settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan – this is the story of the family of Jacob; and more than 60 young learners at Mufulira’s Jack Moffat School...

By MICHELO HIMAAMBO – UGANDA’S comedian Alex Lamu puts his King Kong tag on show as he hosts a Night of Comedy this evening. Lamu, who is commonly known as King Kong, arrived in the...

It is only fitting that our readers take a break from the literary criticism of Mukanaka’s poetry and focus on a national subject, which inexorably is the day of prayer and fasting for ourhomeland following...

QUESTIONS have supportably been asked lately: Is the National Theatre Arts Association of Zambia (NATAAZ) senior theatre festival scheduled for this October? The answer is an emphatic no, the festival, according to latest information has...

IF there has been one theatre team that has noticeably already left an indelible mark for being solidly steady, fixed and consistently been spreading their theatrical activities, Kasama Arts Theatre Ensemble (KATE) has been outstanding...

I SAID it last week again – the National Arts Council (NAC)-organised consultative strategic workshop held a fortnight ago at Mika Convention Centre was by and large cheered as good, and gracious. Oh yes, Mika...

THE literary criticism of this week takes as a point of departure two prominent  poems in Alfred Mukanaka’s vernacular collection of verse  named ‘Amakalata’ or ‘Letters’ as a literal translation from the English language would...

One of the greatest challenges in literary criticism is one which demands that a multilingual approach to works of art be applied and that that application should entail a translation from one distinct language to...