ABSTRACT
Tawen Musa and he is a Zambian political activist and the current Executive Director of a youth organisation called Save a Dream Zambia, which champions education, governance and life skills amongst young people. Young people have always been at the heart of political change in Zambia. At the age of 24, our first President Kenneth Kaunda was a freedom fighter at the forefront of the struggle for Zambian independence. Something which makes us optimistic about the future is that in general we are seeing good community support for youth politics. This is somewhat surprising given that politics is often seen as a ruthless, violent, dead-end game in Zambia. In Zambian politics, women are undermined and insulted, often labelled as prostitutes and told they should be at home cooking and serving men, not standing up to represent their communities.
