Beware Flying Stones

We have lamented many times previously on the seeming willy nilly erection of billboards around Lusaka (and Ndola and Kitwe and Chingola and Solwezi and …). But this time the Lusaka City Council seem to have outdone themselves.  We refer, of course, to the new billboards which have been erected in the centre island of […]

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Blot On The Landscape

Junkyard motif to what used to be pleasurable sight. Of course, for every rule there is the exception. There are a few places on earth that are actually beautified by outdoor advertising. They include New York’s Times Square, London’s Piccadilly Circus and Tokyo’s Ginza. That’s because the billboards in those places don’t obscure the view […]

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