05/10/2025
WHY TRIBALISM MUST FALL, AND TRIBALISTS CANCELLED
There is a saying that the rise of the tribe is the falling of a nation. We will fall if we continue this way.
This is not to say people must not preserve and celebrate their tribal identity, it simply requires that the tribal preservation must not be done at the expense of the joy and peace we enjoy as a result of the coming together of various tribes in building a nation. We can preserve culture, its art and celebrations without needing to isolate or spread hate against other tribes directly or indirectly.
If we are to be real, the coming together of tribes should build the nation and give birth to individuals who are patriotic to the nation as a collective vision. In fact, the majority of the people we have in this country have a bigger identity attributed to the coming together of tribes than an individual tribe.
Let me give a practical example of my own family. My Father was a Mbunda man, my mother a Kwangwa woman, they gave birth to us who now identify ourselves on official documents as Lozi/Mbunda; only because Lozi is a language associated with the coming together of various kingdom tribes, a story for another day. Ordinarily, we may all just put Mbunda as tribe on our documents.
Our children have also been born out of a merging of tribes. Some are a merging of Mambwe, Kwangwa and Mbunda ancestors, others Bemba, Kwangwa and Mbunda ancestors. Some of them have Kaonde, Kwangwa and Mbunda ancestors in them, others still have Chokwe, Mbunda and Kwangwa ancestors, we even have Chewa, Nkoya, Lenje, Luvale, Tonga, and Nyengo ancestors camped among us.
Based on this, we have Kapatisos, including those carrying different surnames but with Kapatiso blood who are Bemba, Chewa, Tonga, Kaonde, Mbunda, Kwangwa, Nkoya, Tumbuka, Nyengo, Luvale, Chokwe, Lenje and more. Would any of these nieces and nephews disown me by claiming that they are more Bemba or Chewa, or that they are Kaonde or Nkoya, would it make sense? Wouldn't that be a rejection of their own family bonds.
I submit to us, that we should develop a cancel culture that will cancel and isolate those who forward discrimination on tribal grounds. We must cancel them in politics, cancel them in our faith groups, cancel them in our communities until they repent and come back to promoting the nation first.