{"id":36375,"date":"2022-12-13T23:33:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T23:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/pointing-out-tribal-inclined-decisions-actions-of-this-government-is-not-being-a-tribalist-2"},"modified":"2022-12-13T23:33:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T23:33:46","slug":"pointing-out-tribal-inclined-decisions-actions-of-this-government-is-not-being-a-tribalist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/pointing-out-tribal-inclined-decisions-actions-of-this-government-is-not-being-a-tribalist-2","title":{"rendered":"Pointing Out Tribal Inclined Decisions, Actions of this Government Is Not Being A Tribalist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>It\u2019s crass dishonest, ignorance and stupidity for anyone to accuse me of tribalism. Firstly, my ethnic, and even racial, composition make it very difficult and unrealistic for me to be a tribalist or a racist. I directly originate and hail from ten ethnicities and four provinces of our country. And indirectly, I have ethnic links with all the provinces of Zambia. This is my fortune or misfortune!<\/p>\n

I am a Toka-Leya. There was this Toka-Leya man from Kalomo who went to what is now Nkeyema and married the daughter of the Nkoya chief, Mwene Kahare, and produced a daughter from whom I descend. I am a Mbunda royal from Mwene Kandala in Yuka, Mabumbu and Mwene Mundu in Liumba, Kalabo. My mother\u2019s grandfather, Ndiyoyi who was the Mukulwakashiko of Lewanika, was a descendant of Mulambwa, the tenth Litunga. Ndiyoyi married a Totela woman from Bwina in Mulobezi \u2013 so I am Totela. I am Kwangwa from Kakulo in Ikabako. I am Kwamwenyi and Kwamashi from Silayi, Liuwa, Kalabo. All in all, on my mother\u2019s side I originate from seven ethnicities in Western Province and one in Southern Province.<\/p>\n

On my father\u2019s side, I\u2019m a Bemba royal from Mwika in Chinsali. The current Chitimukulu is my cousin. My grandmother, my father\u2019s mother, was Bisa from Makumya on her father\u2019s side \u2013 and this is where I was connected to Michael Sata. My grandfather\u2019s mother was white.<\/p>\n

All Lozi or Luyana royals are Lunda. My relative Sikufele is a Mbunda chief in North Western Province. I also have a relative who is a Nkoya chief in North Western Province. It shouldn\u2019t be forgotten that when the Kaonde came to Solwenji from Congo in 1000 AD they found the Nkoya there \u2013 so they mixed and became one people. The Mbunda are the same people with the Chokwe, Luchazi and Luvale. So I have a connection with all the ethnicities of North Western Province.<\/p>\n

The connection of the Nkoya with the Ila, Sala, Soli and Lenje is well known and beyond dispute. Even the names are same. Nkomeshya is a Nkoya name. Chiti \u2013 the first Chitimukulu \u2013 died among the Nsenga in what is now Petauke. And it took a year to take his body to Chinsali for burial. The Bemba royals and Nsenga people are one with a common history and tight historical bonds. Zwangendaba \u2013 the father to the first Mpezeni \u2013 is buried in Muchinga Province, Chitimukulu\u2019s land. Our Bemba and Ngoni ancestors exchanged blood to bond their togetherness. How can one with this heritage, and the knowledge of it, be a tribalist?<\/p>\n

Secondly, my family \u2013 both on my father\u2019s and mother\u2019s side \u2013 paid a very high price for the independence and oneness of this country for me to divide it. Not less than fifty per cent of the first cabinet of this country were my relatives on my mother\u2019s and father\u2019s side. How can I fail to be a patriot and fail them?<\/p>\n

I have fought against Bemba tribalism, Lozi tribalism, Ngoni or Nsenga or Chewa tribalism! I have fought against racism. And I will continue to do so for the remaining part of my life. Pointing out tribal-inclined decisions and actions of this UPND government of Mr Hakainde Hichilema and denouncing them is not being a tribalist.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zambia. It\u2019s crass dishonest, ignorance and stupidity for anyone to accuse me of tribalism. Firstly, my ethnic, and even racial, composition make it very difficult and unrealistic for me to be a tribalist or a racist. I directly originate and hail from ten ethnicities and four provinces of our country. 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