tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53781301769804189312024-03-21T17:18:28.331-07:00Welcome, welcome to my world..Pincelo DiariesA Collection of Writings; Views, thoughts and excerpts from some pieces of my workPincelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496399956162587756noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5378130176980418931.post-61774616470747592472016-11-27T05:33:00.000-08:002016-11-27T05:33:40.086-08:00Dope G: Zambia’s Rising Superstar<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rapunzel Rapunzel please let down your hair...</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rapunzel Rapunzel you should not let them judge you
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">By now most of you or
at least some of you may have heard the song <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Hair, </i>an<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>exciting fusion
of Rap and RnB about the confidence a woman should take in the style of her
mane. But what you may not have heard of are the little titbits of the man himself
behind the jam. So from his new album to what inspires him, Dope G had this to
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I
hear you have a new album coming soon, what inspired your work on the album?</span></b></div>
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For my album, being my first solo one, I made a
conscious decision to unplug from my own little world and tried my best to look
around to see what I felt was missing from the music that is already out there.
I wanted every song to either feel like a one-on-one conversation with the
listener or create a theatre of the mind where I tell a story which involves
the listener in a way that it might not be their story that I am telling but
they most certainly feel a part of it and it evokes real emotions as they
listen.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What genres
can we expect to hear in the album?</b></div>
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In as much as the core genre is hip hop in the way
that I wrote and arranged the songs, I tried to be diverse where genres are
concerned. I always say I am not a slave to genre so I tried to embody every
genre that has influenced my 27 and a half year journey in this life. So from
the eighties disco that my mother would blast from the x-bass stereo we had
even before our first black and white TV to the episodes of 'Zilile Ngoma' that
I watched later in life and all the mixes we would get with R n B, dancehall
and hip hop on cassette tapes to the music I see my teenage nephew dabbing to
now, I just picked all of them and created this colourful picture with them
all.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The
video for my hair was smoking hot, what does it take to make a video like that?</span></b></div>
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Thank you, MT productions really outdid themselves
on that one. In terms of requirements, creativity is always key. I have learnt
from acting that keeping the reaction of the audience in mind as you create is
extremely vital hence you throw things that will shock the viewer. Other than
that, the basics are necessary: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a good
production team, confident extras, good grooming and make up and the outfits
have to be on point too.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I am curious
as to what the title of the new album will be?</b></div>
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The Album is titled 'Flowers'. It will be made
available on <a href="http://mtnplay.com/dopeg" shape="rect" target="_blank">mtnplay.com/dopeg</a>
So many symbolic meanings behind it but overall I just wanted to appreciate my
people and give them Flowers while they live as opposed to putting them on
their graves. The title track and video are worth checking out.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Some fun facts
About Dope: </b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Favourite Colour</b><br />
Favourites vary seasonally to be honest. Current favourite is yellow.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Favourite food</b></div>
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Any white meat dishes really. Grilled fish/ chicken
are always a winner.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">First thing
you do every morning</b></div>
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Learning to pray before grabbing my phone to peep
social media to see what is trending. Twitter and Facebook are my main news
sources.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you have
a creative mantra before you write any songs?</b></div>
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"Do not think, think is the enemy of
creativity". Just basically emphasising that creativity is not as
programmed as physics/ mathematics. You need to feel more than you think.</div>
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local Musician</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There's a tie between
Chef 187 and Pompi. They always challenge me to always go in avenues where most
artists are scared to step foot in.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Favourite
international act</span></b></div>
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Definitely Jay Z. He only had his first album at 26
but has somehow become the face of longevity. I aspire.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Which
international or local act would you love to do a duet with?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My mind has been on
perfecting my solo sound lately but now that the album is done, I am looking at
options. I would love to do a collaboration album with a Copperbelt artist. I
think they would bring something to the table, I love the kopala sound.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The late Dr. Myles
Munroe. He sure had things figured out and I know a one-on-one with him would
open my eyes to a lot. The beauty is he wasn't stingy with his knowledge so his
words live on through his books and videos.</span></div>
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Lol. Wow. Tough one. I guess the Brain from 'The
Pinky and the Brain.’ I am always on a plan to take over the world. Lol.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Crazy because I saw a
movie titled 'Hollow Man' once based on the same concept. Sadly, I would have
been on a Robin Hood type of thing, just trying to even out the gap between the
rich and the poor. So some politicians would get a visit from me if you catch
my drift. Lol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Elias Chipimo Jr. is
undoubtedly one of Zambia’s brightest people. By the age of thirty, he had attained
an advanced law degree from Oxford University on the Rhodes Trust scholarship and
founded Corpus Globe, a highly successful legal firm offering corporate and
commercial legal services to both local and multinational clients. But in 2010,
despite a legal career that was at its peak and still rising, Chipimo left it
all behind for a life in the lane of Zambian politics. Unsurprisingly, the
question that many people asked was why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In his book, Unequal to
the Task; Awakening a New Generation of Leaders in Africa, Chipimo explained
the sad occurrences of 2008 that were the seed of his decision to actively join
politics. His parents, Elias Chipimo Sr, a former official in UNIP and MMD
governments and Anne Chipimo were travelling to their hometown Mporokoso to
cast their votes in the October, 30<sup>th</sup> presidential by election when
they were involved in a car accident. His mother tragically passed away on the
spot but his father survived yet terribly injured. In the next hours, what
followed were frantic efforts to save his father’s life, efforts that made
Chipimo reflect deeply about the differences between the rich and the poor in
Zambia. He asked himself how many families had the means to care for a
critically injured parent, to provide access to healthcare that would mean the
difference between life and death and as he and his family tried to navigate
through the Zambian healthcare system to provide his father with the best care
possible, Chipimo also realised that Zambia as a nation had grown accustomed to
mediocrity and gradually accepted it as normal. It was then that he realised that
something needed to change. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But it was two weeks
later when he finally decided to actively get involved in the country’s
politics. Rupiah Banda had been newly elected as Zambia’s Republican President
amid claims of vote rigging. As he announced his new cabinet at State House,
each name was met with celebration on the part of appointees. Following the
proceedings keenly, Chipimo wondered why anyone would celebrate to receive an
appointment in the government and run an already terribly battered economy. It
defied logic and he knew then that he could no longer sit by the terraces and
watch the governance of the country from afar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Two years later, in
2010, the National Restoration Party was founded with Chipimo as President. Although
many people agreed that Chipimo had promising leadership qualities, they
doubted that he had the claws necessary to survive and win in the game of
Zambian politics. Given the party’s poor performance in the 2011 presidential
elections and low numbers of active members in the following years, Chipimo’s detractors
felt they had been proven right. Narep was a party largely confined to infancy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Fast forward to 2015,
Chipimo announced that his party would not be contesting the 2016 Republican
presidential elections. This was something that that some members of the
electorate read as a form of Chipimo’s retirement from active politics, that
somehow he had come to realise <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that even
though he had noble intentions of joining politics, good leadership qualities
and a good following on social media, winning elections and getting to state
house was a different and difficult feat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But was Chipimo retiring
so soon from active politics after only five years on the political scene? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Apparently not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">On this decision to not
contest the presidential elections and other issues, I spoke to Elias Chipimo
Jr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at the Narep offices in Lusaka. As
soon as I entered his office, he walked over to me, energetically with a
youthful demeanour. We shook hands and took our sits. I asked my first
question. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What
made you decide to not contest the 2016 presidential elections?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“We made a strategic
decision not to stand in the general election because we want to consolidate
the work we have been doing on the ground by converting the work into tangible
results by having several councillors and MPs in parliament. I will be standing
as a Member of Parliament instead for Mporokoso constituency. We want our
constituencies to be model constituencies to illustrate how a constituency
should be run.”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What
is your take on people’s perception that you practise tea room politics?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“It is normal and I
understand for people to conclude that I practice tea room politics because
they don’t get to see the work that I do on the ground, hence, that is part of
the reason Narep has made a strategic choice not to stand in the presidential
election.”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If
Narep was in power now what would they do differently?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“It is amazing how much
opportunity exists in the current state of the economy to completely
restructure what has been a very badly arranged framework for our economy.
There is constant talk about diversification, not depending on copper and
building home grown capacity but nothing ever gets done. All these things can
be easily done. It all starts with a vision of what you want to see and asking
yourself, what can you do really well that the world needs. We can be the
world’s largest exporter of organic honey. The world has a demand for honey and
an even bigger demand for organic honey. So focusing on honey, Narep would in
one stroke address the problem of the exchange rate, diversification and empowerment
of communities in rural areas as they are the best areas for bee keeping. In
the same way we have a Copperbelt, we will have a honeybelt.” </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">We
have seen many people get to power with big ideas like yours but they never
implement them, what could be the reason?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“It is because they
never had a vision in the first place. Also, the moral foundation is so badly
eroded and people are not held accountable. There is no effective challenge to
the leadership.”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Corruption
prevents many governments from implementing their plans, how will you keep it
out of your government?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“We will establish a Truth
and Reconciliation Commission where immunity can be granted to perpetrators of
corruption in exchange for information on how the corruption was committed and
all those involved, we can then get the corruption right at the source.”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Finally,
do you see the National Restoration Party ever forming the government of the
Republic of Zambia</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Yes,” Chipimo says, gently
nodding, “this is what I have been explaining to you. We aim to form the next
government in 2021.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">It all starts
from here, you see.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">For twelve years - more if you are that kind who repeated
grades - you go to school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There, you
are told that you have to work hard so that you can one day make it to University.
Never mind that you might actually just need to know what you learn in school,
that maybe it is in these school years that you discover another form of
gravity, if there ever was such a thing. They never tell you too that the
country’s two prominent universities, Copperbelt and University of Zambia,
built initially for two thousand or so students, are too over crowded to likely
give you a fair chance. Woe betide you if you have no connections to help you
find a place or if you are just plain unlucky.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">You do as you as
you are told. You work hard and make it to University. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You just need to have this thing called degree;
your life depends on it, so you have been told and so you have come to believe.
Never mind that people like Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg
and Apple’s Steve Jobs built empires which have revolutionized our way of life
after they had dropped out of University. You see, for all the knowledge you
receive the years you’ve spent learning, the Zambian education system teaches you
one thing; to one day be employed by someone else. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">At University,
they begin to tell you a story that picks up from where the one at secondary
school ended. While at school they told you to work hard to make it to University,
at University they tell you to work hard so you can find a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>job. ‘If you do well here, you will be managers
in multinational organizations,’ Lecturers tell you as you sit goggle - eyed
behind desks, pen in hand, ready to write down the notes the Lecturer writes on
the board, plus every word that he speaks. This, you know by experience is what
will help you pass the exams. Never mind reading widely even books that might
have a flicker of connection to your course because maybe there could be
something in them that could trigger a deeper understanding of your course. Never
mind that. Besides, such reading was not something they encouraged you to do
while in school. In fact, it was something your teachers considered a waste of
time because the only books you needed to read were text books.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The four years
or so you spend at University feel like a lifetime but on the day the
Chancellor confers you with the degree and you raise your mortarboards up in a
victorious celebration, you are convinced that this was not only the right
thing to do but the only thing to do. You feel like this is the day your life
begins. Soon (you think) you will be employed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The first days
after University go by smoothly. You are newly free from your studies and revelling
in your new freedom while submitting applications for employment here and
there. You are sure they will call you. After all, you have a degree. Plus
isn’t this what you have been told all along? That you should go to school, do
well, get into University and then find a job? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Days turn into
months and months into years without a response on any of your applications. It
slowly begins to dawn on you that you may not get employed. Frustration creeps
in and you begin to spend your days unproductively, drinking beer, smoking weed
or slouching on the sofa while moaning, ‘I have no money, jobs are hard to
find,’ to anyone with enough time to listen. Sympathetic ones comfort you, ‘It’s
just a matter of time, you will find a job, it took me ten years to find this
job.’ Their words soothe you a little but you still feel the pinch of your
empty pockets. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">After sometime,
you find a job. It’s a cause for celebration and people say, ‘See, we told you
it would eventually happen.’ ‘Thank you,’ you say and count your lucky stars. When
pay day comes, you feel like the richest person on earth. But by the time its
mid month, reality begins to sink in. You discover that even with a salary,
your broke days are not entirely behind you and you realise how expensive electricity
is and how unaffordable the basic food has become. Even butter begins to feel
like a luxury. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">However, for
years you work diligently and efficiently and with the same cycle persisting of
money running out by mid month after every payday. Each year you hope you will
earn enough to live a life that resembles the one you imagined while at
University. But with each year things seem to get worse. Your pay can hardly suffice
because things keep getting more and more expensive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The country imports almost every item you use
for your daily sustenance and any negative fluctuation in the currency causes a
further increase in prices of goods.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon, you come to realise that it’s impossible
to survive on your salary alone and you decide to start a business for extra
income and turn a corner of your sitting room at home into your office. But the
odds are not in your favour. In addition to the economic problems the country
is facing, problems that have led you to seek extra income to survive, the
country begins to experience eight hours of load shedding, sometimes even more.
This, the government says is necessary due to the low water levels. They hint
that if the country experiences good rainfall, load shedding will reduce but
once the rainy season starts, they say it will take at least three rainy
seasons to generate enough hydroelectricity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You cringe at load shedding although you are
yet to understand just how this affects you.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">In time, you
develop a full appreciation of what load shedding brings to your life. You are
unable to conduct the business you thought could earn you extra income because there is a pitch black darkness that greets you
every night when you get home. You think about buying a generator, inventor or
a solar system but these, because of the exchange rate, have become more
expensive for you to afford. This business is now something that you are unable
to do. But you can’t afford to wait for the day when the Kariba dam fills up to
supply you with adequate electricity. So you think of another business to do
and since your first business failed and swallowed all your capital, you get a
small loan to start the business. It isn’t long before you come to realise that
whatever business you do, loadshedding and the weak kwacha negatively affect
production and profitability. You make a loss and the business goes under. The
consequences are dire. The financial institution you borrowed money from wants
its money back otherwise they will get all the items you put up as collateral.
So to repay the loan you get numerous salary advances from work and other small
loans from Shylocks. Soon the actual money you take home from your pay reduces
to zero because everything else goes to the people you owe.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Now, you have
hit rock bottom and you begin to wonder just how you got to this place. Didn’t you
do everything right? Go to school as you were told? Kept away from stealing and
tried at business? As you reflect on all this you begin to wonder whether there
was ever any chance of you making it in life. Somehow, you feel like the odds were
stuck against you from the very beginning. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this point, a feeling of doom looms over
you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just how did you become a prisoner
of the very things you thought would give you economic and financial freedom;
school, a job and steady income?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">This feeling
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The unfortunate
thing is that if you were asked to do all this again, you will choose to do it
all the same way. This time, just hoping for different results.</span></div>
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Pincelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496399956162587756noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5378130176980418931.post-63929041848049665472016-08-04T10:42:00.001-07:002016-08-04T10:42:59.206-07:00GUY SCOTT: The Man Who Helped Sail The Boat of The Patriotic Front<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Perhaps this was the
highlight of his political career or maybe there is still more to see but in
October 2014 Guy Scott made history by becoming the first white man post
colonialism to lead an African nation. His stint at the helm of the Zambian
government was short but eventful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Guy Scott had ascended
to the Zambian presidency after the demise of President Michael Sata who had
died in a London hospital after an illness. Scott’s appointment to the
presidency won the country praise from the international community but this
soon frazzled as the wrangles in the Patriotic Front and the government
deepened. The praise was soon replaced by a fear in the international community
that Zambia’s democracy was not stable and leaning on the verge of a meltdown.
Was this man now in charge of the country trustworthy enough to keep it from gliding
into political turmoil characteristic of African nations? This was something
the whole world was watching closely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">For decades Guy Scott
had been a popular figure on the Zambian political scene. He had served in the
MMD government as Minister of Agriculture and saw the country through the worst
drought experienced in the Southern African region, ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the whole of southern Africa was going hungry but not Zambia, we
brought in maize from everywhere and had enough to eat and feed our neighbouring
countries’ </i>he later says. Years later Scott joined Michael Sata in the
Patriotic front which later ousted the MMD from power in 2011. All things being
equal, Scott was the rightful person to carry on after Sata’s death as he had
served as the Vice President of the country for the years the Patriotic Front
had been in power under President Sata. But article 34 of the Zambian
constitution would not have it that way, it stated clearly, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘A Zambian presidential candidate must have
both parents who are Zambian by birth or decent.’</i> The clause, widely
believed to have been included in the constitution by the then President
Chiluba to prevent Kenneth Kaunda from contesting the 1996 elections was the main
argument for those who opposed Scott’s appointment as Acting President, this
and the fact that President Sata had left Edgar Lungu in charge of the nation’s
affairs on his final trip abroad for medical attention. (It is also interesting
to note that if this clause had existed in the American constitution, Barack
Obama would never have become the president of the United States of America.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">However, Article 34 was
challenged by another in the constitution, Article 39 which states, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Whenever the President is absent from
Zambia or considers it desirable to do so by reason of illness or any other
cause, he may by direction in writing, authorize the Vice President or where
the Vice President is absent from Zambia or incapable of discharging the
functions of the office of the president, any other person to discharge such
functions of the office of the office of the President as he may specify...’ <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">After a brief scuffle
on which article of the constitution rightly applied to Scott, Article 39 of
the constitution won the tug of war and Guy Scott was appointed Acting
President of the Republic of Zambia. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Ninety days after on
January twentieth, the nation went to the polls. Peacefully Zambians cast their
votes and after a tightly contested election between the Patriotic Front’s
candidate Edgar Lungu and the UPND’s Hakainde Hichilema, Edgar Lungu emerged
victorious and was sworn in five days later. After Lungu’s inauguration, Scott
but all faded into the background of the nation’s politics. Will we see him
again on the political scene? That is something we have to wait and see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I speak to him now on a
Saturday morning. Scott sits relaxed on a sofa, comfortable in a maroon golf
shirt and a pair of shorts despite the stinging cold weather. Behind him is a
painting of a crowd gathered, lifting their hands in praise and affirmation of
whatever is being said and facing a podium where a few men stand. No doubt this
is a political rally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I ask my first question
and he takes a sip of his coffee before he responds. He begins with a little
history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">When
the Patriotic front was still in infancy, people wondered why an educated man
like you was joining Michael Sata in the Patriotic Front. What made you decide
to join Sata in the PF?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">In 1990 Kaunda agreed
to install multiparty democracy. I was in oxford teaching and somebody phoned
me in the middle of the night and told me there was going to be a multiparty
state. My feeling is that Zambia is ruined by bad governance. Multiparty
democracy was a chance to get literate governance in Zambia. I thought that
with my technical knowledge and entire education levels, I could do something.
So I came back. We went to the convention in April 1991. There were a lot of
people, academicians and politicians like Mr. Sata who had crossed from UNIP
and we formed a committee. I became Chairman of Agriculture and Sata became
Chairman of Local Government. It was the first time to meet Michael and we got
on very well. We campaigned for Chiluba, for the MMD in 1991. We won. Chiluba
made me Minister of Agriculture and Michael Minister of Local Government.
Michael remained and I was fired. Then we got to the third term. People started
leaving and forming parties. Michael by this time was National Secretary of the
party and his job was to organize the convention at which the matter of the
third term would be discussed. He didn’t want to leave because he thought that
if these other people have left, then its better I stay put here and take the
job myself when Chiluba eventually realises that the people of Zambia were not
going to accept him for a third term. Michael realized that his best chance was
staying in the MMD so he organized the Mulungushi convention. Then Chiluba
dribbled Michael and had chosen Mwanawasa. Michael meanwhile had started
forming the P.F and he called me up and said, ‘come here,’ and we were in the
P.F.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">In
the early years of the P.F, how did other members respond to you being the Vice
President of the party?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">No problem. The general
population has never even provided any journalist with a vox pop. You can go
and stand in the street with your microphone and say, ‘what do you think of
having a white Vice President?’ They will say, ‘who cares what colour the Vice
President is? We know him, we like him, he has fought for that position.’ They
used to come (alot of foreign journalists) and say let us go and do a vox pop
and get negative opinions. They were very little negative opinions from the
general population. This is different. Politics is different. You will use
anything you can find on the ground. So if you are going to discredit the Vice
President for any reason, you will say he is the son of colonialists. That is
how politics is and even then it didn’t work. People said we love you, carry on
with what you are doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">When
the P.F finally won the elections, you never acted as President when President
Sata left the country, was there an initial agreement for that?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Yes. It was agreed
right at the beginning and Michael took all the advice. As you know, there was
a lot of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kafwafwa </i>with people going
to court and asking for injunctions when it finally happened. Michael knew some
opposition parties had a case prepared against the government the first time I
was put in as Acting President. I acted a few times without anybody knowing
because he didn’t even bother to do the paper work. This is a very litigious
society and UPND I understand had a whole dossier that if I became Acting
President they would run to court. That would have been a nuisance because
Michael would have been in Japan or New York and would have found himself
having to fly back and we didn’t want an unstable situation and Michael maybe
didn’t want to give ammunition to the opposition. But of course he couldn’t
remove me as Vice President when people advised him. When people tried to tell
him that he should remove Guy as Vice President otherwise he will become
President, he would say, ‘what’s wrong with that? He has a high hand, he is
just like me.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">When
you were first informed that you had been appointed as the Acting President,
what were your first thoughts?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">My first thoughts were
that it’s going to be a fight because people fear I am going to try and
interfere with their choice. When it comes to doing things properly, you have
to consult the constitution. That meeting we had in Kabwe whether you say it
was properly conducted or not was demanded by the constitution. There was no
option, there was no choice. There was some nastiness, some attempts to
threaten but I didn’t pay them any ear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">During
the 90 days you acted as President, it was a volatile period in Zambia, how did
you manage to keep the country stable and functioning during that time?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The credit is due to
the Zambian people but I had to speak to them. I was on television nearly every
day saying we have reached this stage and it’s going to be okay. The hot air
was coming from the social media. There were a lot of attempts to disrupt the
process but I think we did okay. We did the common sense thing. I don’t want a
war, who wants a war. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Looking
back at one of your first actions as Acting President of relieving the current
President of his Duties in government and as Secretary General of the P.F and
later reinstating him, how do you think it affected your image as a leader? Do
you think it somehow reflected you were indecisive as a leader?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">A credible leader is
more than one event. It was an attempt to neutral the situation because I knew
he (Lungu) wanted to stand and I was of the view that if someone wants to
stand, you have to give up your post and that was a difference of opinion. The question
was if you are going to stand as we have heard from everybody, then how can you
actually be allowed to run the administration of the same election you are
participating in? I was persuaded to withdraw that, we hadn’t even buried
Michael yet. So that was what I did. There is no point sticking to opposition
if you know it is going to lead to unrest. There were people saying the
constitution should be different but that’s completely irrelevant. What the
constitution says is you go and have a big election conducted properly and
choose the party’s candidate. My only defence was this is the constitution of
the party and the country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">After
your very public reconciliation with the current President, how would you
describe your relationship with him now?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The relations I
wouldn’t say are very warm but aren’t at a point where there is any conflict.
He is the President and he has the choice if he doesn’t want me as anything in
his government. That’s fine. If he has to offer me a job, I have to be
convinced I can do it freely, responsibly. I have a lot of work to do. All I am
doing is working with my constituency at the moment. Like other people that
have put everything they have in the P.F, I am interested to see where it goes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Being
the first white President of an African country, did you have support from
other African Presidents during your time in office?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Yes. I talked to all
sorts of people and told them everything was under control. Mugabe knows me and
I was a member of his party in the early 1960’s. A lot of people sent me best
wishes. People I had never even talked to sent me telegrams saying keep going.
It was historic. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">What
is your opinion on article 34 of the Zambian constitution which bars anyone
from contesting the presidency whose parents are not Zambian by origin?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I think it is a stupid
provision. Zambians decide who they trust and who they don’t trust. I mean of
course if you are not even a Zambia citizen it’s a problematic issue. Why
should you want to stand if you are not a citizen? If you have taken your
choice that I am now a citizen, why should you now create two classes of
citizens, ones who can take the job and ones who can’t take the job?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What
would you say was your greatest achievement in government under the P.F as Vice
President and Acting President?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can say we did what we set out to do in a
short period of time. My greatest achievement is to try and get these systems
working again. The office of the Vice President is the only office that has the
authority, the clout to bring together and say, what is our policy on this? If
you take any problem in Zambia like the small problem we had with yellow fever
policy, there was a lot of nonsense from the technical point of view and to get
that fixed we had to hold a number of meetings. You need to bring people
together and manage everything. A lot of the serious hard work was to bring
back in the Zambian administration properly convened cross party groups.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">I
hear you are writing a book, is that true?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Yes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Finally,
what would you like your legacy to be?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">My legacy is that
Zambia moved ahead and not in a circle and of course like Barack Obama said,
‘the problem is I can’t help it, I will be remembered by the first thing I did
and the first thing I did was that I was the first black to become President of
the USA and there is nothing I can do now that can top that,’ and I have the
same issue, I was the first white Acting President, how can I top that? Everyone
in the world was reading that story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Photo Credit: Lyandu Photography</span></div>
Pincelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496399956162587756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5378130176980418931.post-80730252129233714242016-08-02T00:35:00.000-07:002016-08-02T00:38:07.382-07:00Once Upon a Time..<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Once
upon a time, there was us...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Young
and free. Carefree and safe from the worlds harm and its all grief. Engrossed
with children’s things and children’s play. Happy feet and full bellies.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We
could have been anything we dared to imagine, even that beyond the scope of our
dreams. But now, after years that were unkind to us both, you are gone.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We
chose different paths you and I, although to be fair there were only two paths
to choose; one of self inflicted pain and the other of Godly healing and self discovery.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And
now I am now left wondering where along the way we left you behind? At which
point exactly could we have picked you up, if ever we had such a chance. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I
wishes and what could have been have slipped from me, in the very same way
water slips through one’s fingers. What is left is the cold harsh reality that
six feet below the earth, your body lies stiff and cold together with all your
hopes and dreams and everything else you could have been.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But
the promise of eternal life ignites comfort in my heart; that though your body
lies in darkness, your soul rests in God’s arms, a better place than what you
left behind.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And
when all is said and done or there is little much left to say, the only thing
that makes sense to be said is rest in peace and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>until we meet again at those glorious pearly
gates.</span> </span></div>
Pincelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496399956162587756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5378130176980418931.post-25200750620236380542015-11-13T00:04:00.001-08:002015-11-19T02:23:04.079-08:00Waves of Emotion (Wrote this some years back)<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "harlow solid italic"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">A day like any other when I first came to know you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "harlow solid italic"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Waves of emotion swept through me and told me there was
something special between us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "harlow solid italic"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">An unspoken understanding of the feeling that lay still
between us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "harlow solid italic"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Or so the waves told me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "harlow solid italic"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Even though there were times when you were out of sight
and out of mind and I got distracted with the others, my heart never really
forgot you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "harlow solid italic"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">It has been years now since that first day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "harlow solid italic"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">And these waves still carry me to you and make me forget
that I long decided to forget you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pincelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496399956162587756noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5378130176980418931.post-16020616964382592132015-03-14T04:32:00.000-07:002015-03-14T04:32:01.379-07:00Beneath The Stars
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A
little smile lingers still as I lie here thinking about him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">One
moments meeting can sometimes leave a lifetime of feelings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As
I travel to my special place, when others company is not my soul’s desire, I
see him and there beneath the shiny stars, I see us lying down side by side yet
wrapped up in each others’ magic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
am all he wants and I am all he needs. Even if he was offered the whole world
and the entire universe, I would still be the one he would choose, me and only
me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I
stare at the stars; I look closely. Somehow they remind me of the love that
lies beside me; sparkling, beautiful, enchanting. This place, I could stay
forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
this happens rather suddenly; the stars twinkle no more and disappear
completely from the night. What I see above me is a stained white ceiling and
once again I become aware of what I had forgotten for a little while; that if
you have ever taken my place, to lie beneath the shiny stars, it is not me who
lies here beside you but another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My
soul aches, my heart bleeds; why could it not have been me meant to love you? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And
then a voice; gentle, sweet and haunting whispers to me just before I fall
asleep, ‘Perhaps in another life and in another time.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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