From the local press

Here are a couple of recent articles from The Post of Zambia, a lively, informative and unabashedly partisan newspaper.

• A news article from today's (April 3) paper re. the recently concluded nationwide strike by workers for the Shoprite supermarket chain: http://www.postzambia.com/post-read_article.php?articleId=19525

• A commentary article, "Giving money to the poor," by a Dutch diplomat: http://www.postzambia.com/post-print_article.php?articleId=19433

On a different tack entirely, I recently read again Carl Sandburg's Chicago, and couldn't help thinking of Lusaka. Wonder if any Zambian poet has hymned this sprawling, brawling, hard-working, gritty metropolis.

- Bill