ZAMBIA
“It feels like God visits everywhere else
but lives in Africa.� -- Will Smith
I’m going to find my body again, crack open my treasure chest torso through the keyhole of my creaky hips, lose those wrinkles I’ve found in self-conscious scowls on subways, soften my deepening cracks and sand down the chipped paint. Unlike most people who look like me, I’m not going there
to try to “SAVE
AFRICA,” as another ignorant,
proselytizing, Leopold-ghost colonialist, and by the way, it is too massive, too different, too many things all at once to always just call it by one name, so get it right I’m going to Burundi, then I’m going to Rwanda, then Kenya, Tanzania, I’m going to
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Egypt, ZAMBIA so maybe I can inhale a small breath of Africa, so maybe I can drench my eyes in the swollen lives of some of the beautiful people of Africa, so maybe I can learn and humbly observe Africa
so that maybe one day Africa can help to SAVE
ME.
From “Save Africa” by Carlos Andres Gomez
In 2012, there were
14,309,466 people living in Zambia.
maize The staple diet is
based on
Popular traditions include wire and copper crafts.
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Life expectancy from birth is years
74.5%
of people live on less than $1.25 a day
mosi-oa-tunya Victoria Falls:
Largest waterfall in the world
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go.
Aricka Lewis
Photographer and designer
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