On Wednesday, 6th January 2016, the president of Zambia signed the amendment of the constitution in a large ceremony. I say large because thousands of people attended and it was held at the new Heroes stadium which some hilarious people refer to as ‘Gaboni’. All civil servant were given half days and some few private companies also allowed their employees to leave work before 5.

So this whole affair was called a ‘Great Historical Event’ by so many people. But one guy was like Hold up!! Do you people even know what historical is? Do you even know what it means to do great stuff? Do you? Huh? Do you? (Well he didn’t say it like that, but you get my point right?)

So this guy, his name is Muchemwa Sichone, took to twitter and proceeded to give all his followers an ejukeshan (education). He told us stuff that we were never taught in school. Things we should all know. Things that when you know, just make you get up from your slumber and start working. He told of a glorious industrious past that Zambia had. All the factories that we had. All the products we made within our borders. I wanted to cry, you guys. I wanted to tear off my clothes, fall to the ground and howl up to the sky (well mainly because it was blazing hot yesterday, but also because of the stuff I was learning).

And so because I don’t want the history lesson to be limited on twitter, I compiled all his tweets and they are here for all of you guys to read. All this information was tweeted by Muchemwa Sichone and he got it from Mr Wynegood G. Malunga. Here is the entire thread. (If you can’t see the tweets, you can check them out on my storify here) Let me know what else you guys remember about Zambia’s history.