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Self-Lover| Marketer| Writer| Life Traveller| A Mixture Of Iron And Clay
Lusaka, Zambia
Joined November 2015
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After I left my marriage, I moved to an isolated part of Luanshya. I was depressed and literally living in a small forest. Never socialized. Had no reason to. Wanted nothing to do with men. Then red ants started terrorizing my flat. One night, a man knocked on my door with a….
You're single, you stay indoors and you sleep early. How do you expect to find love that way ?.
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bottle of paraffin… Turned out he was my closest neighbour in that empty forest hood. He doused the ants with paraffin. A week later, he drove me to Ndola for my first nail appointment in years and helped fix my car. This is 4 years later. He is the love of my life.
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This man acts like he’s the first and last person to lose a parent. I lost both of mine within 6 months of each other but even I don’t whine like this. Let Diana rest for fuck’s sake!.
Prince Harry opens up about pain of losing his mother Diana in new emotional video in which he urges young people who have lost a parent to talk about their grief otherwise it 'will eat away' at them
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Ati shani? The comment about my bush man? And the references to paraffin🤣😭Also, those calling me a liar…🙆🏽♀️ I have new respect for folks who live off the engagements on this app. I don’t think they have peace.
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There was a forested area in New Town, Luanshya that had plots that were underdeveloped or abandoned. Later, I learned the area’s seclusion was worsened by rumors of occult practices years back. Now, you’ll call me a witch. 😩 But guys, love is beautiful. May it find you. ❤️.
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With every province I visit, my heart just breaks. No one should lie to you. The majority of Zambians are suffering and living in abject poverty. Lusaka is just the Scientist's laboratory: An illusion of progress and prosperity, a specimen that hosts propaganda and delusions.
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My niece's boyfriend told her to steal K50 from me and send it to him to book a cab so he can come and kiss her. In case you're wondering how broke and useless Zambian men can be.
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If I’d said kuma farm, that wouldn’t have been true. The outskirts of Luanshya have wooded areas and streams/dams. Most towns, big or small, have forested areas before they become concrete jungles. Ba Chalala, New Kasama, and literally all, stop pretending this is news. Shem.
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Do people from Chalala know that they can move to Lusaka and find accommodation?.
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(Shared with permission). After buying a plot, my cousin neglected it because she had no money to develop. Today, her boyfriend suggested they take a drive there. This is what she found. Secretly, he's been helping her build. This is her story:
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You did the right thing. Woodlands Basic is a neutral place to meet.
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K5, 600 is dedicated to savings on my August budget. Four years ago, I had nothing and would pimisa Panda diapers for my son at K2.50 ngwee each.
I know everything is so tough right now but what’s going well in your life? Let’s bring back some positivity to the TL ✨.
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Can I confess? Every time Godfridah and her ministry release a statement, this is the image that comes to mind. 😢
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Just talked to a lady who's been happily married for 23 years. No drama. No abuse. It's possible. Claim it. 💕.
The month of love. 😍.
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There’s no doubt HH is doing some good and progressive things. But for as long as I’m not experiencing those good things, my household is not experiencing those good things, and my business is not experiencing those good things, I’m not going to pretend I’m happy.
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Ba Lusaka, you have no respect. 😒 My aunt’s friend is a side chick who masquerades as the man’s sister. His wife even calls her to complain about him. As in, “Mulamu, Bashi Katwishi is not behaving well.” 🥺 And the side replies, “I know my brother is difficult.” 😵.
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Calling out a fellow woman’s atrocious behavior doesn’t mean you’re seeking approval from men. It means you’re calling out a fellow woman’s atrocious behaviour ffs. But what rabid “feminists” do is use terms like “pick me” to intimidate straight-thinking women into silence.
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Children are not the aesthetic you see on social media. They are a permanent and expensive commitment. And no, single parenting is not glamorous.
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Before criticizing the aesthetics of people’s proposals, answer this: Is anyone proposing you?.
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My son cries for his sister when she leaves for school. When she returns, he runs to hug her and they're both happy.Then they start fighting. He wallops her. She wallops him back. Tears and tantrums until they go to bed. The next day, repeat. I've learned to mind my own business.
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Whoever said you both have to want it to work wasn’t kidding. In conversation, in behavior, in everything to do with your union, you both have to explicitly express a desire to make it work.
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I feel for the man. Hope he takes his efforts to someone who’ll appreciate them. 🙏.
Unprovoked someone calls me and says he wants to send me money for ice-cream. Elo atuma K52😳 tema setting ayo🤔.
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When overused, the morning after pill causes a hoard of problems. More sensitization and education’s needed. You can imagine my shock when a doctor told me it shouldn’t be used more than twice a year.
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Our married men are portrayed as these child-like beings without a conscience or functional brain. When they cheat, it's because an evil woman swung her vagina too close and they couldn't resist. Alas. Now the married man's home is broken. Now the wife gotta hunt down the enemy.
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The idea of marriage and the reality of it are very different. You really shouldn't be getting pressured to rush into it by people who sugarcoat and omit important things you need to know.
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How we tolerate ECL is how we tolerate every atrocious person or situation in this country. And that’s why nothing changes and we remain a bottom-barrel country.
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We may have to introduce Time Keeping, Common Courtesy and Living Within Your Means classes in Zambian schools.
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Imperfectly perfect 💕
10/10 body??.
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Exposure is important. You'll think different. You'll move different. You will want better.
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I’m paying vendors a total of K46, 000 this week. Small money for big businesses. But for me who’s just 7 months old in active entrepreneurship? It’s a significant contribution to livelihoods. I pray this encourages someone to find their courage and step into the unknown.
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I admire Catholics. Mass, one hour. Done. And if anyone wants to linger, there’s a song: 🎵 Go, the mass has ended…🎵 Not ise ba Pente. I’m tired of us. 😑.
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Someone said since I'm employed in a managerial position, I shouldn't be seen selling salaula and cleaning chemicals. I told them I love being an entrepreneur. I also know who I am and what I want. Chimeko and pretense is why some stagnate while others progress. 🙃.
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There's no point of dating if you're not going to help each other out in practical ways. Life yakosa please. Nobody's got time or energy for airy promises and endless sweet talk. Love them with your actions. I've said what I've said.
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@SomeoneGreat179 Killing them is just okay. Anyone who’s ever been the victim of theft or aggravated robbery will tell you how it robs you of more than just your material possessions. Your sense of safety and security, your dignity, your confidence, your personal information; everything gone.
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“Babe, I promise things will be different.”.
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Every Saturday, my daughter and I visit a private library in our neighborhood. Our membership fee is just K110 per month but the knowledge/exposure we acquire from our books is priceless. Her reading, speech and grammar have vastly improved. At six, she's discovered a new world.
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#ZedTwittter Has anyone here ever had a bad experience with food from #Shoprite, #KapiriMposhi? This is me in a Luanshya hospital right now with food poisoning. What has worried me is a nurse telling me I’m not the first patient who got sick after eating Shoprite, Kapiri food.
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Why are workplaces in Zambia so toxic? Been on the phone for hours, strengthening my girl who wants to quit her job.
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Being a mom is hard. Being a single mom is even harder & should be avoided if possible. Don't get pregnant coz it's "fashionable" or coz you're desperate to validate yourself. Parenting is not an IG post or Kardashian spread. It's tough. It's the hardest thing you'll ever do.
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“Male kindness .is so alien to us .we assume it is .seduction every time.” . - @blythe_baird.
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A Zambian will screw you over pali a couple of thousand Kwachas when you actually have the ability to make so much more together. Short-sightedness and an inability to control a rumbling belly ruins so many partnerships.
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Children are a huge and permanent responsibility. Use a condom or/and get on birth control.
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This has hurt me. Really hurt me. I didn't even know him personally. Would come across his posts on occasion and admire his intelligence, humour and patriotism. I always learned something from his tweets.
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Every Sunday, I marvel at our commitment to the white man’s religion and every Monday, I marvel at our failure to commit to his work culture. We’re actively religious but passively industrious.
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The world has changed. Women know their value and exactly what they deserve. And men are struggling to understand or accept this.
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If you're HIV+, take your medication. Too many are dying needlessly because of ego.
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Each day that passes, I get more convinced that we women are our own worst enemies. That we behave in ways that neither attract nor foster love, commitment, and everything we claim we want. That we are in deep denial about the atrocious ways we behave. That we are bizarrely.
So my roommate asked a guy yesterday for money n he said he’ll see what he can do, apa just now they were on a video call n she asked what time he’ll send the money, the guy said he’s waiting for someone to send him money but even b4 he could finish, she hung up n blocked him😂😂.
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To you struggling to leave a toxic relationship. To you who cries alone in your bed. To you with seen and unseen bruises. To you who's made more mistakes than you can count, know this : There is always hope for a better tomorrow. You are worthy. 🙏.
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Munali Roundabout area.Salama Park.Chalala.These places need intense prayers.
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It’s only on social media where getting older is treated like an abomination. In real life, people are dying so young that those of us still living are fully aware how blessed we are.
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Someone doesn't want a relationship with you because you've got kids? Preference is allowed. Appreciate the honesty.
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@BuyoyaJonah Tilka the swimmer called out these horrible behaviours a while back if I recall. And if I recall, her plea wasn’t taken seriously. Shame on all of us, honestly.
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@Tey_36 We agree. We are just agreeing at different times because ma phone ya zima zima. So it looks like we’re not agreeing.
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The mess began with Michael Sata. What we're dealing with is the domino effect. the pathetic aesthetics of a mediocre legacy.
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Why are people muma komboni so grateful when their councilors install water facilities? It's a basic human right to have access to water. You shouldn't dance when your leaders do in 2020 what they were supposed to do in 1964.
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Solid, long-term relationships are not for the fainthearted, lazy or immature. Infatuation, money, looks, excitement fade and can't hold up a union. It takes friendship, forgiveness, compromise, patience, commitment. There's no magic, no shortcuts. You have to put in the work.
Name your unpopular relationship opinion?.
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I don't believe soul mates are a pre-existing phenomena. I believe you create a soul mate when you build the kind of intimacy that's difficult to duplicate and also consciously give and receive the kind of selfless love that requires a 6th and 7th sense.
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I remember pacing, heaving, weeping and fighting my fears. "He will live. My son will live."
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Social media glorifies single parenting and/or having children with a person other than a present and responsible husband or wife. Kaya the universe I live in but I don’t know any single parents or co-parents who are having the time of their lives.
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Have you ever been fwayad by your cab driver or garden boy and just wanted to cry? Is this the price we pay for being friendly?.
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I am not a man. I will never be a man. So I don’t want to act like a man and I don’t want to be the aggressive, stubborn and hell-raising modern woman. I want to be soft and feminine, yet powerful. I want to inspire, not demand. And I want his authority, strength and leadership.
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If he gives mixed signals, blows hot 'n cold, fails to state his intentions and strings you along, he is abusing you. Unstable situations breed unstable emotions so you'll react and he'll call you a "crazy chick" to cover up his cowardice and disrespect. You're not crazy.
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Know your woman's menstrual cycle. Study her hormonal fluctuations and be sensitive to her emotions. It'll save you both a lot of heartache.
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Steer clear of couples and their drama. You'll look so stupid when they reconcile.
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@NdawanaY “We does not need your security” is where I started to put my phone down and return to my nap.
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How y’all look wearing blue⁉️👀👩🏽🔧.
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Congratulations! @HungryLionZM. You've unlocked unprecedented levels of customer loyalty. There was a police raid at your Luanshya outlet where a quartet of gemstone thieves had gathered to enjoy. you guessed it. Hungry Lion. while carrying out their business.
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@prplexi The craziest part is it takes you by surprise each and every single time. You’re eating everything within reach, you’re angry, you’re sad, your body feels and looks horrible. And you don’t know why until…oh.
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Get you a man who's so secure in who he is that your different parts don't unsettle him. A man who loves your femininity, admires your intellect, allows your uniqueness and encourages your ambitions. A man you can respect effortlessly because he brings out the best in you.
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There is so much we hide. So much we can’t say. So much fear, shame, pain, guilt. The world is not kind enough to understand our suffering…much less stop it. So we hide. Until we can’t. #KekePalmer.
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Maids eventually change you. You go from being an employer who invests so much in them and treats them like family to becoming a soul-less, distant person who barely cares wether they stay or go.
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A broken engagement is better than a broken marriage. He won't see it now but he's dodged a bullet. @Stone_XL.
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Miscarried in 2016. Lost so much blood, went into hemorrhagic shock. Limbs were numb, eyesight blurry. Veins couldn’t be found. I was dying. A doctor dropped everything he was doing and rushed to save my life. I needed a blood transfusion too and on that night, my blood group was.
What is your NGA TEH BA YAHWEH moment that you have had in your life.
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Imagine a Zambia where protest and lobby groups are a thing. Where we park our cars, refuse to get on buses, walk or cycle in groups to/from our destinations, until the price of fuel is lowered.
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Earlier this month, I needed 1,000 dollars. It's been coming. Clean. Not loans. I'm now just 21 dollars short of my target. Law of Attraction. Faith. Mindful thinking. Positive energy. Call it what you will. It all works.
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People are dying young. tumors, cancer, depression, hypertension, substance overdoses, suicide. People we know. People we love. My heart is heavy.
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Has your daughter hit puberty? Good. Now tell the old aunties attempting to indoctrinate your child into labia-pulling to leave y’all the hell alone.
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The enablers are the wives, the relatives, the friends. This entire country is one giant enabler. For as long as it takes two to have sex, I'll never tolerate the theory that women are solely responsible for extramarital affairs. Our men are childish. And we allow it. Simple.
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Depression is real. I know first hand. But so is our generation's propensity for impatience, instant gratification and thin skin. Let us separate the illness from these character flaws.
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Luanshya's best school is K1, 500 p/term. Most expensive taxi ride is K40 or K50. Decent accommodation starts from about K800 p/month. C'est ne pas possible. Issa dream. 😂.
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If your friends ever judge you and your situation, know that you're hanging out with kids. Every mature person knows that life is rough, unpredictable and anyone can hit rock bottom.
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A country that’s already so poor at factually and extensively documenting the people and events that continue to shape it, has no business abolishing History classes.
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Tell yourself their behaviour is deliberate and well thought out. Tell yourself they make conscious choices. Tell yourself that just like you, they are an adult. Do this and save yourself the heartache of making excuses for them.
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Being a "what will people think" type of person is your fast track highway to endless misery.
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Dear marriage counselors:."The devil you know is better than the angel you don't" is terrible advice.
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