Growing Desire for Secession from Zambia

The tendency to want to breakaway from Zambia has been long coming and is not in the least surprising. The whole misguided notion that the British signed an agreement with Lewanika for the country to attain independence from Britain is absurd inasmuch as the British did not own Zambia. Zambia belonged to Zambians and for one person to think that the colonialists had the right to give power to one selfish individual is ridiculous and stupid. It is totally insane for some individuals from Western province to continue to harbour those far-fetched notions that Britain gave them a right to, at a later stage, start advocating for a separate independent state. 


It must be clear from the outset that Zambia and Zambians existed long before the British came to colonize us. It can be seen that the driving motivation to the call for secession is the deep rooted tribal characteristic that we all too familiar with.  Some of the individuals advocating and writing for secession are living in America and maybe in the United Kingdom and is a cowardly act. The recent write-up was merely academic with the intent to incite those that do not think outside those tribal boxes. This adventure by our learned colleague is a very dangerous one. It is likely to turnout into a disaster which will negatively impact innocent Zambians living in Western province and other provinces of Zambia. 


We all know about the desire for these people to have a country in which only one language will be recognized and other non-language speakers shall be called makwerekwere. What sort of freedom of expression have this or these individuals been  denied in Zambia? Is it freedom to have a one-language nation? We are aware that the majority from the province do not share these late silly ideas and neither do they want to be manipulated by individuals who think they are fighting for their freedom when living comfortably in Europe and America. It is not their immediate family members who will be caught up in the cross-fire but ordinary Zambian citizens.


Many of us have wonderful, educated friends that hail from Western province and will be a sad reality if their counterparts continued to push for the unacceptable secession. This development will be a relationship and game changer at the same time. How then will we deal with our friends knowing that their own are advocating for violence and separation? Developments like this dictate that we all make conscious choices about how to deal with such unfortunate selfishness from a handful of people. The spectre of civil as advocated for by our learned friend will unnecessarily introduce elements of suspicion such that innocent Zambians from Western province will be viewed as potential troublemakers or terrorists and terrorists have to be dealt with a sledge hammer.


Secessionist must take this as a timely warning that Zambia will not entertain their ill-conceived idea and deal with the situation with kid gloves. If they want a country of their own, let them go to Britain and have the British give them a piece of the UK. Zambia is a unitary state and we will not allow selfishness to bring chaos to the nation.