Teamwork is Crucial

 

Teamwork: Has your dream ever seemed preposterous to others or do you find yourself in a situation where you have to compromise your goal?

 Sometimes yes, often happily no. If you have a conviction about something, everything just gets swept aside. The realness and practicality of your conviction has got that much more power. But if you were mistaken about something and somebody else had a better idea, you learn from that and you put all your full strength and support behind it. A lot of times I find myself implementing other people's good ideas. There is never a shortage of good ideas, but people to turn their ideas into reality. In fact, if you know how to turn ideas into reality, you do not even need to think. There are plenty of good ideas in everyone. All you do is learn to listen, and listen good - and act firmly and quickly on good vibes. That's all. Am fortunate to benefit practically from this very frequently.

 

A happy son of the soil

We are a part of nature and not apart from it, how have you used nature to embrace survival and being a person?

 Survival - I have lived directly off the land. In my school days most holidays and weekends found me at my parents' farm, where I was taught no hand-outs. I had to get my fingers right into the soil and raise money for my school books and all other stuff. Indeed you appreciate what nature can give you. And you spend most of the time talking to the birds only, and beg a kind cloud to come and shield you from the hot sun as you try to put in a little more work. Nature is in command there and you feel it all over you. And nature has inspired me a lot in my creative works - I have talked before about the influence of rain for instance. How it changes the world in an instance - everything is suddenly enveloped in a slow-moving, disquieting cloak; and you feel like a part of the falling raindrops. It washes over everything and you are really afloat and melting. When it is raining. And if you live in urbania, just try this. Dive into the bush even just once a month. Away from cars and crowds, away from concrete walls. Let your nose take in cool, clean air and let your eye travel uninhibited all the way to the distant horizon. You will feel nature and experience its healing renewal on you. We all need this nature drip regularly!

Misheck M'hango

 

Life is a learning process, it brings us lessons to be learnt in different proportions and finds us in different capacities. What lesson is tattooed on your mind?

 I lived in a lot of different homes in my boyhood - I learnt that it's not so much what we experience in life that matters, but what we make of it. If you can take double lessons from one 'life session' you always emerge better for it. I have really come to appreciate this. Then also that you are much better off learning from vicarious experience. You know, it's amazing how we usually fail to capitalise on the experiences of other people to learn ourselves some useful lessons. Do you have to get your fingers into the fire too to know that it burns? No. You see another cat getting singed - that should be enough demonstration to you that fire sure as hell does scorch.  

My music is my voice

 

You have a computer school and have made a positive impact in other people's lives -  in our effort to clean up the www,  what do you think we should do differently to achieve the goal not only as a web site but as a nation?

 I cannot resist telling you what a cathartic feeling it is to see a person who came in totally blank on a PC going out fully equipped to handle PCs in any normal office environment, and we have the pleasure of getting communication from some of our ex-students doing well even abroad in the first world. What should we do differently? Fish after the positive values more, and use the IT revolution to improve our general livelihood. It's a pity people still seem to think IT and Internet are a luxury, because they are not. I would love to teach the whole Zambia PCs - but also, teach our younger people more positive thinking. We do not have a formal system for that right now. There is a programme we are planning on called YOVI. This is to teach young people to have a positive view of themselves and make them realize they can change the world with their own bare hands. Right now the emphasis is too much on what people can't do, than on what they can do. Unfortunately these become the future leaders! All over-burdened with soggy, shoddy thoughts of what is impossible. I would like to use IT to change Zambia!

 

Advise to our future, our children

Think positive. You got the power to change everything! Don't believe everything you hear. Most of it is bull, anyway. Read, read, and read again. Have fun, but read. Aim to be better than every adult you see around. Do not be easily impressed with cars, pot-bellies and wines. They mean nothing. Dream about changing the world for the better turn- it will surely change. Make it go anti-clockwise if you will. And you are the sweet birds that will sing new songs in this new clean world!

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A moment of truth: Our points of character need to acknowledge our weaknesses so we can set ourselves in a position to work on them. What is your weakest point and what would you knock off in order to work on it?

 Is it easy to identify your weakest point, especially if you don't consider yourself a generally weak character? Maybe sometimes I get too sentimental for my own good, and I don't know whether I can - or would even like to - "work" on that. Sentience overdoes me.

 

What would you give up to make a difference in Zambia?

 I would give up a lot of personal comforts - I assure you of that! - if I can see some of these dreams stand up, e.g. kids who grow up with a different set of thoughts (i.e. positive ones). Most of our people - including youth - have no dreams in their eyes!! Then what's the purpose of life, of being alive at all?

 

 

 As a nation, as a culture, as one language, as civilization; what does being a Zambian mean to you?

 A happy son of the soil that has enjoyed free education and now has an opportunity to make better for the self and many others around me. It means sharing all knowledge and ideas to be as good as anybody else in the world - we must enjoy all the sun that shines on our part of the world, too! We must work, eat, dance, be strong and merry! Being Zambian means looking for positive values like the good side of people and using these as a fabric for building a better, prouder, healthier, more robust nation. We have no excuse to be poor or miserable! This starts with feeling good about ourselves.

 

 

 

After all is said and done, a hundred years from this second you and I shall turn to dust. How then would you love to be remembered?

 When you and I are pieces of dust a hundred and fifty years from now... I would like to be remembered just as I was, not as I wasn't. If I do anything considered positive or monumental by others, that's what I would like them to remember and learn instructively from. You know, the important things. Not things like whose chickens did I eat or whose wife did I bed. You know, we all have little these little failings - that shouldn't be pulled over the great things. Why spend the whole day discussing the smoke when you could be cooking a meal in the raging fire under the smoke?