A review of the lessons learned during my most recent time in Bulozi This is the second of two follow up posts written after my departure from Bulozi in early March 2017. In the first, I provided a recap of my involvement, with an emphasis on how things finished. In this post, I will go … Continue reading What I learned
A final account of the activities and results of January-February 2017 in Bulozi It has now been one month since my departure from Bulozi. I had fully intended to broadcast the story of how things finished in a timely fashion, but unfortunately, competing priorities got in the way. Some of those competing projects are interesting, … Continue reading This is how it finished
I met Levy and Tamara when they boarded a minibus that I was riding. They were communicating in a local language that I was learning in earnest, providing me with the opportunity to share halting greetings and awkward conversation. The language was Zambian Sign. Because Levy and Tamara are Deaf. My involvement with the Deaf … Continue reading Levy and Tamara
A brief glimpse into my daily life when in Mongu In this blog, I write regularly about my work and how I think about it. That is intentional: I would rather get people talking about those things. But just for once, today, I would like to share some things about the place where I lived … Continue reading A View of the Home Front
This statement is particularly *timely* in North America, where an hour of time just vanished in the middle of the night. Fortunately, the plays-on-words permitted by Daylight Savings Time have given me an excuse to pop out of my blogly silence. Two weeks ago, a group of amazing research colleagues from Canada and the UK … Continue reading Time Flies
C’est ainsi qu’une collègue canadienne avait décrit cette région lors de ma première visite ici. Mais ça veut dire quoi, exactement? Dans certains sens on voit facilement le lien. Le peuple Lozi se décrit comme étant une société distincte en Zambie grâce à leur histoire. Pendant des décennies le Bulozi avait un statut spécial dont … Continue reading « Le Bulozi est essentiellement le Québec de la Zambie »
This post is authored by all-start research assistant Lynn Akufuna Nalikena, profiled in this post. Being the research assistant to the Canadian man who was conducting a research on disability, I came across different people but they share one thing in common. There are those who were the research participants in the villages and those … Continue reading A Visitor Bringing Development
Full-time student, part-time research assistant, soon to be a teacher Lynn Akufuna Nalikena was a part of the team that allowed me to complete my PhD fieldwork in 2014. At the time, she was just starting her degree in Education at the University of Barotseland, here in Mongu. When we began research assistant training, I … Continue reading Meet Akufuna!
“Yes, we can succeed! It’s only that we have not been given the chance.” The quote above is the stock answer that I receive from group members when I ask for details about the business ideas that they are pitching. By all signs, the statement is accurate. But for me that’s besides the point; I … Continue reading The dynamics of dancing in endless circles
Is “copycatting” a good idea? Or is it merely that people have not thought of anything better? The photo above is one corner from Mongu’s main crossroads – The Roundabout, for anyone who knows Mongu. This corner has few buildings, leaving space for people to set up katembas; booths to sell small items over a … Continue reading Replication as a business model
