Hi, my name is Charles Mwewa. It all started with my flagship publication, "Zambia: Struggles of My People." Now, we are contributing to the plight of literacy and the environment in Zambia so that the next generations should find a green and clean and literate earth and Zambia. Join us in our quest or
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ZSMP is committed to the well-being of Zambia and the plight of Zambians. ZSMP has partnered with Ecosapentia to improveEcosapentia is the company we created with a dual-mandate of 100% literacy and fully-legislated environmental protection. DONATE today and support the cause launched in partnership with ACP and GRECO!
Charles Mwewa and ZSMP have partnered with GREEN COSMOS, an environmental and climate change NGO in Zambia headed by Martin Mulenga, to protect the environment in Zambia!
Charles Mwewa and ZSMP are committed to contributing a portion of school requirements to students in secondary schools, colleges and universities through an annual scholarship donation to the first, second, and third prize winners selected after reviewing one of Charles Mwewa's books!
Kwasila Nthaka, the face of ZSMP, hosts the #SharetheStruggle campaign every two months, directed at struggling women in towns and villages of Zambia by providing them with a momentary food relief while discussing their daily struggles.
Charles Mwewa and ZSMP have partnered with Paul Chilas, an uprising Zambian musician, to write, produce and distribute music and songs based on Charles Mwewa's books, such as "Zambian Struggles of My People," "Resurrection (A Spy in Hell)," "I Bow," and many more to come.
Charles Mwewa and ZSMP are committed to grooming Zambian grassroots soccer talent through the establishment and running of ZSMP Soccer clubs in every of Zambia's ten provinces, culminating into the "Charles Mwewa Soccer Trophy" awarded to the winner of the annual "Charles Mwewa Soccer Tournament."
Martha and Shadrick put up an a amazing poetic performance on April 28, 2023 at the Copper Awards where Charles Mwewa won a book trophy. The "ZSMP Poetry & Drama Team" demonstrates and showcases poetry and dramatic enactments based on Charles Mwewa's books.
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At African Executive: October 6, 2020
Zambian students are effectively using Charles Mwewa's book, "Zambia: Struggles of My People."
"Politicians don't directly create wealth, they manage available resources. But they directly influence and create policy through legislation (in democratic countries, at least) so that citizens can create wealth. You don't have to expect that Kaunda, or Chiluba or Mwanawasa or Rupiah or Sata or Lungu is going to suddenly bring wealth. However, politicians should create an "enabling environment" to empower the people to creatively manipulate resources and make wealth for themselves (businesses) and others (employment). The error we have made in Zambia, for example, is that we expect government to create jobs for us. This stagnates wealth creation and makes poverty a natural consequence. Anyone who depends on government for wealth will not be rich, unless corruption is encouraged." - Charles Mwewa
The three problems identified that Zambia faces today, in order of priority, according to the responses received at Charles Mwewa's forum are: (1) Lack of exemplary, creative and progressive leadership; (2) Rampant, uncontrolled and political corruption; and (3) Unwillingness of qualified, competent and people with new ideas to get involved in national governance in order to provide solutions to such vices as poverty, undemocratic tendencies, ignorance and etc.
Bridge-Gap Leadership
What is the most urgent type of leadership Zambia needs? The most critical kind of political leadership Zambia needs is a BRIDGE-GAP LEADERSHIP (a short-term goal leadership to usher in a leadership with a long-term mandate). In 5 years, this leadership should enact policies and systems that are meant to first change the national mindset towards things like responsibility, diligence, care for nature and environment, investment, order, a mentality that rejects the current poverty state (policies that make poverty a crime against human rights), and etc. Then the next 5 years, set up an agenda that empowers every Zambian to gain a responsible free, basic education that is quality enough to enable them to read, write and solve basic social problems; create a competitive economic environment that enables employment creation and business incentivised support system that forces everyone to obtain gainful employment or sustainable businesses; healthcare that is relatively accessible or free for the most killer but preventable diseases like malaria, AIDS, and etc.; and a government with zero-tolerance policy on corruption, lethargy, tribalism and nepotism.
Pray & Do for Zambia
If you are praying today in Zambia, pray that God gives your political leaders wisdom and courage to provide an environment that is pro-economic growth. And pray, too, that the citizens begin to DO something with their plenty of time they have to create wealth for themselves - and not simply lazying there waiting for handouts!
Same Old Leaders, Same Old Results
What happens if government after government, president after president make promise after promise and repeatedly advance the country not even an inch? Why do Zambians keep voting for the same people, who achieve nothing, and leave the nation worse than they found it? Can you call that governance or leadership?
Power, by its design, has four major weaknesses. Any leader, whether in politics, religion, social or any other persuasion of life, will have to guard against these four pitfalls:
1. NOT LISTENING: This is the first weakness of Power. It is also the first sign that a leader has started to be corrupted by Power. They are not there yet, but they have entered the path to self-destruction, autocratic tendencies, and self-belief. When a leader stops to listen to advisers, spouse, colleagues and the people, they have begun on a road to corruption.
2. FLATTERY: This is the second stage to corruption. It is the sign that you are moving from responsible Power into absolute or autocratic Power. It begins by looking for, and sometimes, soliciting flattery. Such leaders will like to hear only what they want. The trouble begins when they can’t or don’t hear what they want to hear. Everyone else not sharing their opinions or point of view is an enemy, and must be isolated or ostracized.
3. PRIDE: Pride and flattery are related, only that Pride is deeper and more ruthless. Pride is the third stage to Power corruption. When power becomes Pride, it closes all opportunities to other points of view and only considers its own as legitimate. At this stage, it eliminates opposition, refuses to listen to reason and becomes conceited. When Power is Pride, people are nothing but things to be used to reach the leader’s ends. Power, at this stage, believes it is always right. Usually, at this stage, Power has corrupted a leader to the point of killing anyone who stands in their way.
4. CORRUPTION: The final stage of Power corruption. The regime, order, rule, church, and so on, at this stage, is ruined; it’s rotten to the core, usually irreversibly. Power, at this stage uses everything, including law, to reprise opponents (usually, at this stage, opposition is none-existent). Law becomes tyranny. Democratic or religious institutions become weapons of mass corruption. Common-sense becomes avaricious. Power doesn’t just kill, it kills at will, and sometimes, just on sheer speculation. The only way to reverse an absolute corrupt Power is to use mutiny, revolution or democratic mass protest that paralyses absolute Power.
Bibliography to "Zambia: Struggles"
Pre-Independence Zambia
Struggles for Independence
Independence Theories
The Second Republic
Attempted Coups
Presidential Politics
Law Rule in Zambia
Human Rights in Zambia
Criminal Reform in Zambia
Sexual-Orientation Debate
Church Politics in Zambia
The Clergy and Politics in Zambia
Zambian Church History
Christian Nation Politics
The Third Republic
Debt Politics
Humanistic Economy
Economic Future
Upper Middle-Income Vision
Technology Nation
Economic Struggles
Economic Globalization
Welfare State
Universality of Corruption
Corruption in Zambia
Good Governance
The Chiluba Matrix
The Politics of Culture
The Language Debate
Media in Zambia
Zambian Authors
Information and Privacy
Internet Communication
Emerging Zambian Leaders
Diaspora Politics
Rural Poverty in Zambia
Shanty Towns in Zambia
In 2011, Charles Mwewa became the first single author to write a book covering all topics from law to economics, to culture, to politics and to the history of Zambia. The book has 1,100 pages with about 500 books and references cited. The book has over 2,500 footnotes. In 2017, Charles Mwewa began the project to re-make the book into volumes to make it easier to read and follow. Volume One is already available with its companion "Test Bank".
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