Kantangantanga and Kinshimunkulu

About the Book

The book is about my difficult life growing in an impoverished conditions and yet managed to achieve an accountancy qualification let along working and staying in the U.K. for over twenty years.

Africa is rich in story telling. Most stories told were never written and were lost as those telling them died with stories in their hearts.

I decided with encouragement of colleaques at work who listed to stories to write them for sake of my children and other young people born in this time and age.

My stories tel my hunting experiences, social stories in growing to manhood and how people wanted to preserve marriages by ownership.

I also tell you about my tribe - the Kaonde, their origins, their dances their food, and drink.

About the Author

I grew up mostly in Mubinde village in Kasempa town. I went to a local village school not far from the village run by Missionaries. My first year in school we wrote on ground, and afterwards when you could write a bit properly. You were given a slate-kink of small black board. We did not chalk we used a kind of stone which looked like chalk. Afterwards when you became proficient, then you were given an exercise book.

Schooling was not popular and children, when recuiting officers came to the village, would run into the bush to avoid registration.

I did not hide and enrolled at the village school. Like a miracle I passed and moved to higher school about 21 miles away which was a boarding school-school fees were £8 per year. After four years, I passed and was selected to go to secondary school. Eventually after another five years I completed my secondary, passing in Division 3 of Cambridge School Certificate at Solwezi Secondary School in December 1968.

With the assistance of the Manpower Training,I was selected as trainee accountant in Industrial Developement Corporation (INDECO) in Lusaka. I had never travelled beyond Kitwe away from relatives. This time I had to travel to Lusaka. I arrived in Lusaka in the morning by over night train from Kitwe. I worked in Lusaka from 1968 as trainee, accounts clerk and eventually as assistant accountant. I came to U.K.in 1976 and went back to Zambia after 3 years,then came back in 1984 to finish my accountancy training. I have since the stayed and worked in the U.K and qualified as an Accountant. I have seen both sides of life-poor and more affluent life, and now written this book.