Ⅶ - Замбия 🇿🇲 Zambia

Lazarus Tembo with his song "Njala" (‘Hunger’ in Nyanja language) in ZBS TV show "Folk night" (1986) "Born in 1946, Lazarus Tembo was born sighted until the age of eight when he suffered from an eye infection. At this time he was a pupil at a mission school in Eastern Province. His grandmother tried to cure the infection with some herbs but unfortunately calamity befell on Tembo and he went completely blind. [...] In the song "Njala" a village has been struck with hunger. This was captured on a studio video at ZBS with Tembo singing in front of a beautiful mural painting of a village scene done by Trevor Ford {1937-2007, Welsh-born painter and cartoonist}". Source: ZAMBIAN MUSIC LEGENDS by Leonard Koloko, 2012. Ndikukukondani, 🇿🇲 ! :) UPD: "Many years ago back in the mid 60's I went to some kind of Christian camp week in Kitwe, Zambia. I lived in Luanshya. Anyway long story short, I broke my little finger playing games and was confined to staying in the dorm for a while. In the room was a blind guy with a guitar. We got talking talking and I was describing what was happening outside and we struck up a friendship. I liked a band called the shadows and so I asked my new friend if he could play any Shadows songs. He had never heard of the Shadows, so I hummed him Apache and I hummed him Genie with the light brown lamp. He then played them back to and so I asked him if he could teach me how to play them. He taught me those two songs albeit in a simple style. Those were the first two tunes I ever learned to play on the guitar. Since those far off days I have played lead guitar in numerous bands but I always reflect back on those days back in some far off camp in a far off country that was my home. I often think of him when I am playing at some gig and I say to me self this one is for you. I never saw him again after that week. It was a sad day when I learned he had died. I never ever went back to Zambia, I never told him how grateful I was that he set my path for me. But my life is so so so much richer for meeting him. If ever a debt of gratitude was owed then I certainly owe that to Lazurus Tembo." (deleted (not by me) comment)