Hi! I was born thiry-sth years ago, on Sunday, 23 April 1967, 19:05 hrs, in Chibuluma Mine Hospital, Kalulushi - Zambia (that time the country was only three years old!). I could swear, a few brown leaves slowly fell off the big tree outside my birth-room even as I drew my first breath! Showing what? What a world-nourishing individual I would be, as they nourish the soil!
My father worked in the mine, from about 1950 to his retirement in 1978, as a change house attendant. Though poor, we were comfortable and joyous, very happy together as a family. I grew up with sounds of mine sirens, sweet church and pop music and sights of miners in their heavy leather boots and the trendy, bustling, colourful mine compound social scene.
The four most explosive years of my life were easily my undergraduate days at the University of Zambia. This was a culmination of all I had done and sought to do in my life before; I was able to give near full-vent to all my artistic and creativity abilities. I was singing, writing, acting, philosophising and even playing some league football! I was running four clubs by the end of my fourth year. So busy, so tight I was, very often I crept into bed at about 04:00 hrs in the morning, only to get up two hours later to start a new day. My academic life was also very sweet and, although I was a bit of a bad boy in this area (too much time spent off academics to give room to extra-curriculars), I never reached a point where I felt too academically challenged to continue or attempt anything higher. Put differently, I felt that I went through undergraduate too easily, I felt I could stay on in there and go all the way.
What I am now, am a human resource practitioner, currently working in Mopani Copper Mines, one of the off-shoots of the now extinct Zambia's giant copper mining conglomerate ZCCM. I love what I do, especially the (new) infusion of computers into our work. A new world! And so here I am, trying to learn as much about it as I can. It's a most intriguing and fascinating world, I must say! Am called a system administrator - one of those people who sit cooped up in front of a PC the whole day, with a busy phone close by, trying to be nice to all callers, including those that find it unfashionable to make a polite request, even where a query has arised out of their own dumbness.
Lately, though, I have ganged up with a friend or two and we've given birth to a small company with big ideas. It's called Keytos Corporation. We are into IT, trade, communications and are trying hard to break into manufacturing and export. We run a computer school and business bureau. Our aim is to employ ourselves - then a lot of other people - within the nearest future. We have gained good momentum and, as our slogan says - Keytos is the sky and it's not the limit!
On the social front, I got a band called X-Virus. I have recorded a lot of my songs on my home tape and have had the fortune once in a while to appear with my band and sometimes on my own on national TV. My main instrument is the lead guitar, and my main man on it is Jimi Hendrix but I also play a few more instruments. Here, check me out jamming with Mixed Cut - my first electric band. Lately, we've embarked on a project of virtual studio technology recording - that is to say, recording using a PC, right at home. And it's coming on nice! We should be putting out a cd resulting from this somewhere deep in 2002... you'll get to hear about it!
Guess I will tell you more once I remember! :-) In the meantime, jump with me into my past and have a whiff of Snippets Of My Autobiographies. Also, you can catch an interview of me on this hard-working Zambian-lady-abroad's site, Veronica Kachaka.
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