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Sunday Chilufya Chanda

LAURA’S OBSESSION AND HER CLOUDED TRIBAL LENSES; 

READING TRIBALISM IN EVERYTHING


By Sunday Chilufya Chanda

According to Laura Miti, we shouldn't refer to the domiciles of subjects of a discussion as that amounts to tribalism.
Tragically that is Laura’s mis-configured blunt tool of analysis. If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything else looks like a nail.
We hear of the media reporting about Lusaka-based lawyers, Kitwe based doctors; Solwezi based businessmen and so on and so forth.
She is seeing sordid things that don’t exist. She is being overly creative and this kind of “resourcefulness” is not good for anybody let alone a beautiful woman with a fine intellect like hers. We are concerned- very concerned; she has us scratching our heads.
We doubt it could it be something pathological. Perhaps it could it be a way of flitting in and out of the limelight in a quest to remain relevant to her benefactors.
It is common for children at a certain point in their lives to have imaginary “friends”. When a child is bored and lonely they make up the idea of an unseen “friend” and they even converse with a playmates that are imaginary. But as a child grows into adulthood, they are expected to grow out of this odd kind of creativity.
In other cases a person’s perspective of life and everything else gets influenced by the company they keep. Laura will never be able to see clearly when the people around her distort her view of truth with their own clouded version and preconceived ideas of tribalism.
In her desperation to portray an altruistic image of showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others, she has gone to the extreme and now reads into everything incorrectly; and finds herself lost in a delusional story stitched together from the crumbs of the author’s over analysed words.
Surely life for Laura Miti and others like her, should not be wasted by collecting clues or piecing together a puzzle about a statement that is as straight forward as the measuring stick they call a ruler, and as clear as day.
The obsession of reading into things, toying with the imaginary and looking for make believe phantoms in every nook and cranny is not healthy for the mind.
Laura Miti Picture from her Face-book Page
Ironically she has not said anything about the UPND and Katuka’s blatant tribal statement against all Bandas from the East because she clearly shares similar views. But then that is hardly surprising .Her prejudice and juvenile infatuation with biased heroics has sheltered HH and UPND into an intimate blind spot in her selective mind, such that she deliberately refuses to see and condemn the tribalism of her bosom buddies even when it is standing right in front of her and shouting in her ear.
A pretty face like hers shouldn't be associated with the bitterness she seeks to portray each time she takes to twitter.
We don't know what Laura is looking for from this writer. Could she be hung-over from a debauched overindulgence of “Mills and Boon” novels she may have voraciously devoured while at school? But whatever it is, she won't get it.
It doesn't pay for Lusaka based Laura Miti to carry a tribal mind that interprets everything around it tribally.
She is too precious to become a pervert depraved with tribal obsessions.
Ends…//…

The author is the PF Media Director
At the Patriotic Front Secretariat
In Lusaka

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