His Excellency Ambassador Christian Lubasi Luzongo Kalaluka

Today, I pause to thank God Almighty for the gift of life, for grace through storms, for strength through pain, and for purpose beyond trials.

Another year has been added to my journey — a journey marked by battles, lessons, sacrifice, loyalty, love, endurance, and unwavering faith. Through every season, I have learned that destiny is not built in comfort alone, but also in perseverance through adversity and steadfastness in moments that test the soul.

On this day, I celebrate life not merely because I was born, but because I survived, stood firm, and continued walking forward even when many moments demanded surrender. Every scar carries a lesson. Every battle carries a testimony. Every setback has strengthened the resolve to rise again with greater wisdom, humility, and purpose.

Yet today is not about myself alone.

It is also a moment to honour the people, the land, the struggle, the vision, and the enduring hope that binds us together as one people and one destiny. My thoughts remain with all those who continue to labour, sacrifice, pray, and believe in a better tomorrow despite hardships and uncertainty.

I celebrate the resilience of our people, the dignity of our heritage, and the unbreakable spirit of those who refuse to abandon truth, identity, justice, and national purpose. Nations are not built by comfort and convenience alone, but by courage, conviction, sacrifice, and the willingness of ordinary men and women to endure difficult seasons for the sake of future generations.

I also reaffirm my unwavering belief in the dignity, future, and destiny of the Kingdom of Barotseland and its people. Through every challenge and every season of uncertainty, my conviction remains that a people who preserve their identity, truth, heritage, and hope can never truly be defeated.

May the spirit of unity, resilience, justice, and national consciousness continue to guide us as we work toward a future worthy of the sacrifices of both past and present generations.

To my family, brothers, friends, comrades, and all those who have stood with me sincerely through different seasons of life — thank you. Your loyalty, prayers, encouragement, and support have carried me through more than words can fully express. I remain deeply humbled by your presence in my life.

As I enter this new chapter, I pray not merely for personal success, but for wisdom to lead rightly, strength to endure faithfully, healing where there is pain, peace where there is turmoil, and greater capacity to serve humanity with honour and sincerity.

May this new year bring restoration after struggle, fulfillment after sacrifice, clarity after uncertainty, and victories worthy of every battle fought in faith.

May God bless our people.
May God bless our land.
May God preserve our future and guide our footsteps toward peace, justice, unity, and destiny.

With gratitude, humility, and patriotic devotion,

Christian Lubasi Luzongo Kalaluka Snr.

Fellow Barotse Nationals,
Compatriots at home and abroad,
Friends of Justice and Truth:

As Africa commemorates Africa Freedom Day, many speeches shall be made about freedom, unity, peace, solidarity, and the sacrifices of those who fought colonial domination across the continent.

These are noble words.

But history also demands honesty.

For freedom without truth becomes rhetoric.
Unity without justice becomes coercion.
And peace without dignity becomes silence imposed upon the wounded.

The African liberation struggle was never merely about replacing foreign flags with African flags while preserving the oppression, denial, and domination of weaker nations and peoples within artificial colonial arrangements. It was about restoring the dignity, humanity, identity, and self-determination of African peoples.

That is why the people of Barotseland must ask difficult but necessary questions.

What is the meaning of unity when the history of a people is systematically ignored?

What is the meaning of national solidarity when a nation’s constitutional identity is denied, its institutions weakened, its history distorted, and its people repeatedly subjected to political humiliation and repression?

What is the meaning of freedom when the very Agreement upon which coexistence was founded is neither honoured nor even respected in national consciousness?

The Barotseland Agreement 1964 was not a rumour.
It was not mythology.
It was not an invention of agitators.

It was an internationally recognised constitutional covenant signed before the world under British authority and supervision.

And yet, while Zambia commemorates many historical milestones associated with its nationhood, the day upon which Barotseland entered that arrangement is treated not as a sacred constitutional moment deserving remembrance, but as an uncomfortable subject to be ignored, silenced, or politically buried.

What does that reveal?

If the integration of Barotseland had truly been regarded with honour, sincerity, and constitutional respect, then the historical foundation upon which that relationship was built would have been openly acknowledged and protected.

Instead, what many Barotse people have witnessed over generations is something entirely different:
the erosion of guarantees,
the dismantling of protections,
the suppression of historical truth,
the corruption of institutions,
the persecution of activists,
and the persistent attempt to reduce Barotseland from a recognised constitutional entity into merely another provincial possession by the old colonial construct of 'Northern Rhodesia'.

This is why many among our people increasingly ask whether the so-called “unitary state” truly reflects a union of equals, or whether it simply represents the continuation of imperialistic and expansionist Cecil John Rhodes' colonisation under another name and different dynamics. What Northern Rhodesia fails to appreciate is that Barotseland was not colonised but protected and ignoring that is not unity.

For genuine unity cannot exist where one history is celebrated while another is erased.

True unity cannot be built upon selective memory.

True unity does not fear historical truth.

True unity does not criminalise constitutional questions.

True unity does not dehumanise those who insist upon dignity, identity, and lawful recognition.

A nation cannot permanently preach unity while refusing to confront the unresolved foundations upon which that unity supposedly stands.

And so, as others commemorate freedom today, the people of Barotseland must also reflect deeply upon the meaning of freedom itself.

Freedom is not merely the lowering of one flag and the raising of another.

Freedom is the preservation of dignity.
Freedom is the protection of identity.
Freedom is the recognition of historical truth.
Freedom is the right of a people to exist without erasure.
Freedom is justice anchored in honesty.
Freedom is peace founded upon respect rather than fear.

The people of Barotseland must therefore remain vigilant against propaganda, distortion, and politically manufactured narratives designed to weaken national consciousness and dissolve historical memory.

No people survive by forgetting themselves.

And no nation preserves its dignity by surrendering truth for convenience.

We must continue to reject hatred, violence, tribal hostility, and recklessness. But equally, we must reject political intoxication, historical manipulation, and the dangerous belief that power alone can erase covenant, identity, and nationhood.

The struggle of Barotseland has never fundamentally been against ordinary citizens.

It has always been a constitutional, historical, moral, and political question demanding justice, sincerity, and lawful resolution.

To the young people of Barotseland especially, I say this:

Do not allow yourselves to become intellectually colonised against your own history.

Study your past.
Understand your nationhood.
Protect your identity.
Preserve your dignity.
And carry forward the responsibility of truth with discipline, wisdom, and honour.

For nations perish not only through war,
but also through amnesia.

As we commemorate both Africa Freedom Day and our own painful historical realities, let us remember that Africa herself cannot truly claim liberation while some African peoples still feel unheard, dishonoured, marginalised, and historically erased within the very states that speak most loudly about unity.

The future must therefore be built not upon denial, but upon truth.
Not upon suppression, but upon justice.
Not upon propaganda, but upon honesty.
Not upon domination, but upon mutual respect and constitutional sincerity.

May God protect the people of Barotseland.
May truth never perish.
May justice prevail.
And may the dignity of nations never again be sacrificed upon the altar of political convenience.

Shangwe.

May God bless Barotseland.

Please standby for the live engagement.

Announcement!

Bulozi ki nako, Shangwe! 👏👏

A new voice has risen for our nation.

I am honoured to announce the forthcoming launch of BAROTSE CHANGE – Volume I by Dr. Lindunda Wamunyima — a powerful and thought-provoking work on the Barotseland question, national consciousness, identity, governance, and the future of our people.

This is the first volume in a three-part series spanning the transition period from 2010 to the present era, documenting the struggles, realities, aspirations, and ideological transformation surrounding the Barotseland cause.

This work speaks boldly on:
• The historical and political journey of Barotseland
• The consequences of the abrogation of the 1964 Agreement
• Identity, self-determination, and governance
• The urgent need for mindset change and national renewal
• A roadmap toward a fully independent and dignified Barotseland

The truth must be told louder.
Our story must be written by us.
Our future must be shaped consciously and courageously.

“Reclaiming our identity. Restoring our dignity. Rebuilding our future.”

Congratulations to Dr. Lindunda Wamunyima on this landmark contribution to Barotse intellectual and national discourse.

Bulozi buswanela ku utwahala.
Linako za ku nahana sina sicaba li fitile.

Barotseland Nokushimba explains:

"According to the Chief Act CAP 287 The Litunga is not a Chief despite being a traditional ruler he is prescribed as The Litunga section 1(a) alone whereas others eg Paramount Chiefs, Snr Chiefs, Chiefs, Deputy chiefs and the Kapasu are covered under section 1(b).

Therefore the Litunga is a title equivalent to King not Chief.

Western Province can be considered as a Kingdom because the land tenure is different to that of the whole country.

Here the land is vested in the hands of the Litunga in trust of the people of Barotseland."
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MY NOTE: Barotseland Agreement 1964 is superior to any other law of Zambia. Whether this law clearly shows the difference or not, even the system through which that law is enforced is Zambian. The King without a kingdom is the joke of the century. Only visionless persons can be proud to be reporting to the Limulunga East Ward Councillor or even voting for anyone: for Kings are Sovereigns and thus not subject to political power!

Above the Ngocana is God, not Councillor, MP, HOD, Director of Chieftaincy, Permanent Secretary, Provincial Minister, or President.

We need a courageous, patriotic, and visionary king, not selfish cowards and sellouts aligned with Lusaka against the people.

Kapa Lubosi Imwiko u teñi kapa ha yo, it amounts to ZERO to the welfare of Barotseland. Ignore him and all that defines his irrelevance to the destiny of Barotseland.