Zambia’s Ambassador to Germany, His Excellency Anthony Mukwita has saluted Joel Saboi Mvula, a young Zambian academic that participated in the prestigious 2nd World Congress on Undergraduate Research that took place recently at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.
Ambassador Mukwita described Mvula, who holds Bachelors` degrees in Psychology and English Language and Literature with Education, as an Ambassador in his own right.
“You were not just there at the congress as Joel but as a representative of Zambia. That is a huge achievement not only for you but for the country”, Ambassador Mukwita told Mvula when he called on him at the embassy.
Mr. Mukwita said President Edgar Lungu places a high premium on education especially for young people as he sees it as an “equalizer”. The Ambassador further said even the First Lady realizes this fact hence her decision to study.
“The First Lady could have stayed at home and enjoyed the trappings of State House but instead she is studying for a degree in addition to her crucial charity work. That’s how important education is”, the ambassador said.
The Zambian envoy noted that President Lungu often hosts young people at State House from various schools as part of his efforts to promote the importance of education.
“Because of education, you are able to travel to different parts of the world and address hundreds of people something you may not have achieved”, Ambassador Mukwita said.
The senior diplomat used the occasion to appeal to young people to embrace education as a “game changer” if they are to challenge the circumstances of their lives. He cited the example of President Lungu who hails from humble beginnings but holds the most coveted job in the country due to a sound education as an astute lawyer.
“Through education, he changed his circumstances and will now go down history as Zambia’s 6th President”, Mr. Mukwita observed. Noting that Joel is from Rusangu University, a new institution run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ambassador Mukwita appealed to other privately-run schools to take a leaf from Rusangu saying, “this goes to show the quality of education the institution is offering”.
Mvula told Ambassador Mukwita that the chance to make an oral presentation of his research was richly rewarding and promises to open more doors for him.
“Next month, I am heading to the United States where I am participating in another researcher’s activity at Michigan State University”, Mvula said.
Out of thousands of entries that were submitted globally, only 250 research papers were accepted with fewer than ten from Africa. Mvula was the only one picked from Zambia and 1 out of 67 students that were sponsored by both the university and the German government.
The 2nd World Congress on Undergraduate Research was an interdisciplinary event open to all undergraduates globally to orally or by poster present research papers on some of the major themes representing current global challenges.
These include the environment, the economy, health, communication, innovation and politics. Mvula’s paper addressed sleep practices with a focus on students at Rusangu University. His study found that close to 80 percent of the students reported poor sleeping habits with only about 14 percent sleeping the recommended 7hours.
Experts have always warned against the adverse effects of poor sleeping habits that include the risk of dementia, low immune system, permanent damage to brain cells, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, heart attack, susceptibility to some cancers and in some cases death.
In recognition of the seriousness of sleep disorders, in June 1993, the US Congress established the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research. Over the years, there has been a flurry of activities in developing what is now generally referred to as sleep medicine as medical science has now accepted that there are diseases that arise from poor sleeping habits.
The embassy in Berlin has opened its doors not only to business people but also to ordinary Zambians that gain extraordinary achievements.
ISSUED IN BERLIN BY KELLYS KAUNDA, FIRST SECRETARY – PRESS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS. ZAMBIA EMBASSY
In other word Anthony is saying that the first lady was dumb until she realise that she had to study? That is a new piece of inside information.
Ati his Excellency Mukwita!!!? Tekulinganya ammapuli naba kateka?
Instead of letting the boy have his limelight he crowds the whole article with his bootlicking ..am even put off reading it and finding out what this man has achived.
Can someone please tell us what he achieved I can not stand this rats Tayali, Anthony and Emanuel Mwamba
Congratulations!!! Tweende webo Mvula, tweende yama!!!
Thanks a trillion for making the smart people of the Zambian Enterprise proud.
Let’s roll …
JUNIOR now only pops up such articles…the main articles over the past days he has been shamelessly cowering in his hole like a mouse…really laughable….
Congratulations young man.
There would have been so many Mvulas if f00lish Lungu ‘s PF was not closing higher education institutions indefinitely.
I know for sure most Zambians are gifted academically because even if they fail to pass local exams they go on to become professors in most western countries. There are so many Zambians who failed to get into UNZA or CBU but when they went out of the country to western countries,many shined like polished gold.
I personally know many Zambia in UK who came here with silent degrees but ended up with distinction masters degrees .
Us Zambians we gut the brians if it was not for stup1t PF decimating our educational opportunities.
Now we are forced to educate our relatives abroad in neighbouring countries because PF has completely…
“Mr. Mukwita said President Edgar Lungu places a high premium on education especially for young people as he sees it as an “equalizer”. The Ambassador further said even the First Lady realizes this fact hence her decision to study.”
Every week its this moron now he has his wife that embassy is now a family business….if LAZY LUNGU places great emphasis on education why is CBU closed for two months?
CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER MY DEAR BROTHER.
You our Ambassador thats y l call you a cadre .how do you even praise pf president and wife when the universities have been closed then you tell us lungu mutawari values Education. Y are universities closed ? Are you not ashamed of ur write ups at times? Giving praises where there’s nothing.
You are part of the persons that has contributed to the down fall of our country because instead of advising ur president truthfully, you are praising rubbish or you have social eyes which sees in dreams because wat you claim is not wat it is. Shame
Breath of fresh air.Keep working hard coz that how you succeed in the normal world
If ECL placed high priority on education he would not have cancelled the meal allowances (that he also benefited from) and closed CBU.
Jay Noble Nvula congrats bro, thats what all those papers you were carrying around the School were about, thumbs up go make us proud in the US aswell, God bless your work bro
Congrats Bo saboi, i can see the genetic formation of a true son of bulozi and Zambia as a whole. Show them what you’re made of. Head over heads heads. Uyoye.
what a combination soboi and MVULA , MEANING A LOZI WOMAN WITH A WISEMAN FROM THE EAST, VERY RARE MARRIAGES, THE RESEARCH WHAT EVER U CALL IT IS VERY SIMPLE AND NOY INSPIRING , HOW CAN ONE STUDY SLEEPING HABITS FROM MONZE A TONGA LAND AND UPND AND U SAY ITS A REASERC? PLEASE NO ONE KNOWS THAT RUSANGU OF YOURS DO PROPER RESEARCH WITH IMPACT TO SOCIETY
Retardation of progress. A black man goes up, you start pulling him down.
Shame on you. Jealousy will never get you anyway.
What’s good is good. Hope your hate doesn’t kill you.