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Ti’ kambe nji? Mwe’ ti uzje ndi mwe. Translated as: “what should we say? You have to tell us”.

MIKA Mwambazi “Brown Skin” she sung, at the just

ended Miss Africa Perth.

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This is an excellent work, well done. However be mindful that Wembas have started preparing Chikanda here after learning from your recipe and so, they will need paper for wrapping Chi-kanda. I hope the Newsletter will not be used for such a purpose by friends the Wembas. Can they confirm in writing to me that they will not use the paper on Chikanda? I am ready to taste it anyway.

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tems in place for us to function effectively. There are checks and balances, procedure integrity and most importantly accountability. The executive continues to pursue excellence and new ways of developing the Zambian community and as such we continue to network with other African communities in Western Austra-lia, as we believe doing so will enable us bridge the gap between different cultures. I am also happy to report that the second half of this year will be eventful with two major events planned, and would advise you look out on media and other publications concerning this. The Zambian Ball and our Family Fun Day are scheduled for the second half of the year; and we believe these events will be significant in re-igniting the passion for the Zambian Commu-nity in Western Australia. I also wish to state that our colleagues in New South Wales are working towards establishing their community and we hope to feature a story about that in the next issue of our newsletter. We continue to partner and encourage other Zambians living interstate to rally their communities into action and actively participate in other local communities forums and events to help us set pace for a continued growth and community development. I wish to pay particular tribute to Past Chairperson, Mr. Davies Chibale who has played a major role behind the scenes in assisting the ZiNSW. It goes without saying that he has been an instrumental figure in the past and continues to be so to date. His wisdom, knowledge and can do attitude makes it all the more exciting to work with him. As we plan these events, we are looking for people to volunteer their time in making them successful. There are so many areas that we will definitely be needing help and as soon as the pro-gram is finalised we will release a request for volunteers on the website and in the newsletter. Lastly, I would like to put this myth to rest. “OZALIWA yabakulu” [OZALIWA is for grown-up], there is nowhere in the constitution stating that one has to be of a certain age to be a member. And as such, we are encouraging parents to sign their children up, university students to get fully involved and everyone else that has not seen the need to be members to sign up, because the suc-cess of this organisation depends on the support it receives from the community as a whole; we cannot over emphasize our need for your support. Get behind us, come on board, support, encour-age and make your contribution, because a little, goes a long way. I look forward to an exciting 6 months. Thank you for your support

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AN EMAIL INTERVIEW WITH : Mika Mwambazi

A s the community prepares for the next Annual Ball, there is need to

put good talent together, and already a number of suggestions have been sub-mitted for this event. Among these, I have received correspondence from artists and talent wishing to perform at the ball and of those is a 23year old who performed live backed by a guitar singing “Brown Skin” at the just ended Miss Africa Perth. Having attended the event with my Chairperson Chilekwa as community representatives, I could not help but notice this talent,. Having been in-formed earlier that she would be sing-ing live, I thought it would be a great opportunity to see how she holds up to a crowd, and the result was “awesome” one great talent. So, I got in touch with her by-passing any manager, and we pulled this interview in a rather electronic way we now call “an email interview with” and this is what she had to share with On!. Thank you for taking time for this rather innovative interview. To start with, I must again say for a Zambian Living in Australia, you really have your talent all together, to put up a good vocal like the one you presented at the Miss Africa Perth. Do you get to have a lot of live performances? Mika: I’m an upcoming artist and so most of my projects and collaborations musically have mostly been under-ground. It’s only recently that I’ve ven-tured into live performance. Who is Mika, for those that don’t know you just yet? Mika: I’m a 23 year old Zambian girl re-siding in Perth Australia. I like to de-scribe myself as a bluesy neo soul vo-

BY: Andrew KANIKI

T he world is changing, and the word “Dark Continent” and most words that have in the past been used to negatively refer to Africa, continue to change to something more positive.

South Africa is an icon at the moment, hosting the 2010 World Cup, and surely after the game we are bound to see more people visiting other parts of this once called dark continent, so as to explore what it has to offer, or may be what they have just not known about it all their lives. For years debates have been hosted to analyse solutions to developing Africa & its people, though re-sults are less than the number of meetings ever held in relation to development. A leaders age, is used to assume their level of maturity in most parts of Africa and though we may not be a statistics Professors, we were amazed to get some simple statistics sent through our newsletter by one of our readers and thought we share this and hear what everyone has to say. We upgraded this email and added pictures so you can review this information shown below, and we ask our readers this question. Do you think a Country’s development, can be measured/affected by the age of its leader or head of state? If yes, why do you say so? If no, what do you think? *Please note that we edited the Russian President from Putin to Medvedev, stated in the original email during our random verification process. Disclaimer applies to this publication and all names will be with-held on request, for answers to this article. Please state “show name” or “kindly with-hold my name” when you write in.

Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe) age 86 Hosni Mubarak (Egypt) age 82 Hifikepunye Pohamba (Namibia) age 74 Rupiah Bwezani Banda (Zambia) age 73 Mwai Kibaki (Kenya) age 71 Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi (Libya) age 68 Jacob Zuma (South Africa) age 68 Ian Khama (Botswana) age 57 Bingu Wa Mtalika (Malawi) age 76 ______________________________ Average: 72.8

Barrack Obama (USA) age 48 David Cameron (UK) age 43 Dimitri Medvedev (Russia) age 44 Stephen Harper (Canada) age 51 Kevin Rudd (Australia) age 53 Nicolas Sarkozy (France) age 55 Luis Zapatero (Spain) age 49 Jose Socrates (Portugal) age 53 _____________________________ Average: 49.5

DIFFERENCE: 23.3

This difference was also estimated to be the development gap between most African Countries and those in the first/developed world. Your opinion is important, let us know what you think.

BY: Chisha Sinyangwe & Andrew KANIKI AGE & WORLD DEVELOPMENT | LEADERS & HEADS OF STATE

1ST WORLD LEADERS/HEADS OF STATE

AFRICAN LEADERS/HEADS OF STATE

The fever is higher than ever before

I don't know if its just age of old, but I have noticed the love for the game is more-than ever and I quote the FIFA President on this as he states “Bringing the World Cup to Africa has always been my dream since I started working in the continent. It started with a belief and now that belief is a reality,” Sepp Blatter. No song speaks for all African’s during this years FIFA World Cup as many would agree that people’s perception of who an African is today, has already been weighed by everyone attending the

games and so lets share this world cup song also available on http://www.ozaliwa.org.au.

Ooooooh Wooooooh Give me freedom, give me fire, give me reason, take me higher See the champions, take the field now, you define us, make us feel proud In the streets are, exaliftin , as we lose our inhabition, Celebration its around us, every nation, all around us Singin forever young, singin songs underneath that sun Lets rejoice in the beautiful game. And together at the end of the day. WE ALL SAY When I get older I will be stronger They'll call me freedom Just like a wavin' flag And then it goes back And then it goes back

And then it goes back

When I get older I will be stronger They'll call me freedom Just like a wavin' flag And then it goes back And then it goes back And then it goes Oooooooooooooh woooooooooohh hohoho Give you freedom, give you fire, give you reason, take you higher See the champions, take the field now, you define us, make us feel proud In the streets are, exaliftin, every loser in ambition, Celebration, its around us, every nations, all around us Singin forever young, singin songs underneath that sun Lets rejoice in the beautiful game.

And together at the end of the day.

Let us all wave our flags and stand proud, for

today we are hosting the World in Africa.

K’NAAN “Wavin Flag “ Peoples Anthem http://www.knaanmusic.com/

http://www.youtube.com/knaan#p/

c/0/SGiwdEj9K2E

calist. By profession, I’m a Multimedia and Advertising specialist with relevant creden-tials attained at Edith Cowan University When did you start singing and doing pub-lic performance and what would you say is your most memorable embarrassments? Mika: I started singing at age 7. My musical abilities where first stirred up by my late maternal grandmother. Work and Music were a delight for her, but at that age I was rather reluctant. My first performance in primary school was quite embarrassing, as I didn’t connect well with my audience due to nervousness. What has helped you since then?

Mika: I love music and it’s a passion of

mine. Music is a powerful tool for self-

expression and connecting people to God

and that’s enough motivation for me.

What inspired you to take up Rhythm & soul and be able to co-ordinate your voice for such a performance as that at the Miss Africa Perth? Mika: I listen to a lot of gospel blues and Afro soul rhythms, artists like the blind boys of Alabama, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight and Musiq Soulchild etc have influ-enced my vocal abilities. I was naturally propelled to cover a song like ‘brown Skin’ by India Arie as was relevant to the event. We have people like the late Michael Jack-son, referred to as the King Of Pop and the legendary, Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. Do you believe you have what it takes to be among the best in soul, in months or years to come? Mika: Musically I’m a bit of a perfectionist, so every performance for me has to be memorable. I’m ever crafting my skill to excellence and so Yes, I envision myself as an upcoming icon. Do you have any Zambian Artist or artists

you feel, is/are a model(s) of inspiration to you or anyone you know?

Mika: The Zambian music industry has really

grown over the years and I feel like the talent

is only getting better and better. I’m probably

more inspired by contemporary artists like

Recho and Harold Chaala.

Moving away from music to more about your personal life, how long have you been in Aus-tralia and do you have family here as well? Mika: I moved to Perth at age 17 for studies, so I’ve been in Perth for about six years. My sister Diniwe recently joined me Considering your educational background, would you say you have worked to accomplish life after graduation? Mika: I studied for a Diploma in Multimedia at West Coast Tafe, I then moved on to Edith Cowan University, where I acquired a Commu-nications Degree in Multimedia and Advertis-ing. I’m currently on the Multimedia team at ECU’s Australian Indigenous Health Infonet where I’m a Web Designer. Apart from Music what is your most frequent kind of life activity? Mika: I provide catering services for my local church, Bethany and various other events. The Zambian community will be hosting its 3rd Annual Ball in October this year. You showed interest just as much as the organisers thought you would be a great icon for the night. Do you feel you can make a memorable performance on the night? Mika: [Chuckles] Yea I am working on something you would call a theme song for the next OZALIWA Annual Ball, not yet right but will be on night. Until then a limited few will have access to the lyrics and chords. Would you be happy to co-perform this theme song if asked, to with other artists on the night, and what would you say to wind-up our interview?

Mika: I would be glad to, I recently formed a 4-piece band called Elz Riddle, and the project is aimed at reaching the youth with various mu-sic genres such as rnb, hip hop, reggae n soul. The music is particularly inspirational as the vision of Elz Riddle is to encourage young peo-ple to live life without limits yet responsibility and to act as a positive voice in light of a lot of negative messages being perpetuated by some me-dia outlets to a vulnerable generation. Thank you for making yourself available for this short interview and hope to see you at the OZALIWA Annual Ball in October. If you are not too shy to use your tal-ent and can play music, Elz Riddle, would like you to get in touch, call : 0415 111 583 or email micahforever@yahoo.com. You will never know how good you are unless you try something out of the ordinary and this may just be a time for you to do that.

Having successfully hosted the 1995 IRB Rugby World Cup, 1996 CAF Africa Cup of Nations, 1998 IAAF Athletics World Cup, 1999 All Africa Games and the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup, the country stood to prove that it had the potential to stage any major international sport-ing event. South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize win-ners Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and FW de Klerk were mobilised to secure support for South Africa's 2010 FIFA World Cup™ bid, which Presi-dent Thabo Mbeki embraced as part of Africa's renaissance strategy. This and several events to showcase the country’s resources helped see the World Cup in South Africa today. The Stadiums

In preparation for this FIFA World Cup™, the country built 5 new state of the art stadiums and upgraded 5 already existing ones, and the result of its wealth in such facilities is priceless after the final game is played. According to statistics there are 32 teams playing, and at the 10 venues they expect to have at least 406, 253 attendances in total with 50, 782 at each match in the 9 Cities host-ing the Soccer World Cup. continued pg10..

A s the world looks to South Africa, a record number of people have travelled to get a live experience of what Africa has to offer, not only in hosting the FIFA

World Cup™, but also in terms of culture and tourism. Speculation as to what the outcome will be, continues to flood media cov-erage, as analysts also make predictions on who may come out top two and compete in the final game.

Considering the once in four years event is being held in South Africa, there is no other Country in Southern Africa I would consider to have the ability to host such an event. South Africa is a country with such a diverse people, culture and traditions. and according to history some of Zambia’s country men and women have ancestral routes of the tribal migration that resulted in the 1800’ s.

The World Cup Bid

In May, 2003 South Africa re-affirmed its intentions to host the FIFA World Cup™ and with Government support and South African Football Association they managed to put together guarantees and presented these to FIFA. By 2006 they had several supporters like Germany and former football star players like Kalusha Bwalya and Abedi Pele, coming on board.

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