Refrain from making tribal remarks to sway voters, author urges politicians

AUTHOR Moono Chungu has advised Zambians against taking issues of tribalism lightly. In an interview on her book titled “Routes”, Thursday, Chungu said Zambia should draw lessons from the genocide which Rwanda and Zimbabwe had experienced due to tribal conflicts. “Seeing that I’m passionate about anti-tribalism, I have done quite a lot of research. And in Africa, I actually focus on this in my book, I highlight how Rwanda in 1994 and Zimbabwe in the 1980s had genocides due to tribal conflict. So focusing on it I knew it was something that can also happen to Zambia and it is also something that people would take lightly. I remember when I first started speaking against anti-tribalism in 2016, a lot...