Let's Get Ready to RUMBLE! (Peacefully, please!)

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.  ~Will Rogers

Billboard in Lusaka

Election Day is T minus 8 days.  Lusaka is buzzing with anticipation.  

In one corner we have reigning champion President Rupiah Banda.   

In the other corner we have the challenger Mr. Michael Sata.  

There are a handful of other candidates--but like America's Ralph Nader and Ross Perot, they don't stand a chance against these heavyweights.


Dora Siliya,  spokesperson for Banda's party, recently warned villagers that a vote for Sata meant a vote for homosexuality (illegal in Zambia).  She urged the men in the audience to admire her soft bottom.  She also declared that Sata couldn't possibly have human parents.


Sata claims that the current administration will murder him and blame it on his poor health.

Now it is left up to the people to decide who will be the 5th president of Zambia.  

Election Ballots in Truck (Photo Katy Vosburg)

My friend Katy captured this shot:  election ballots being transferred in an open-bed truck.  Don't worry, the guy in the in the back is making sure none fall out.


Here is a close-up of those ballots. 

The Ballots (Photo: Katy Vosburg)

People on both sides are already alleging ballot fraud, and no one has voted yet.  Zambia makes American politics seem a bit bland, doesn't it?