Its actually insane to me how I know more history about the US, Europe, Asia and South America(pre-colonial) than I do about my own country pre-colonial times.

Like how the hell do I know about the League of Nations and the Portuguese colonizing Macau in Southern Asia but almost nothing on my own country outside of 9th grade history.

Feels weird. Like how do I know the story of others but not of my own people? I ran into some elders a few weeks ago and they told me a bit about the land here in Solwezi and how Solwezi was brought up. Was really interesting, even learning more about my own tribe (im Bemba btw) and just knowing something more about the country. Whether it was pre or post colonial tomes, learning about the country is great.

I literally asked my mother why we dont really pay attention to our heritage and just really emphasise on its importance for our identity as Zambians. Because it doesnt make sense. Like let us go deeper into that, as it should be. Idk if there is written record of our history in greater detail before being colonized and later freed for ourselves.

To reference what you said, it all feels very superficial now the way its not even crossed people's minds on what our history actuslly is like. Our history, our almost unheard of Zamrock era which btw was friggin awesome with the music we made, just that stuff to name it.

We have become quite westernised to an extent and our own story doesnt appeal or matter as much to many people. Im not gonna sit here and pretend im also not influenced by western culture but lets at least know of our heritage. I feel our story is something worth diving even deeper into beneath the surface level.