Kwacha fish and chips

It has educated people in Zambia and in the UK, bought a farm, bought nice houses and generally made a living for a whole extended family.

My earliest memory of it is from 1975 when I went there with my Mum. I, however, do remember I had eaten its wares way before that first visit. She took me there right after she bought her green Ford Cortina AAA 148 from the showroom at the corner of Chiparamba and Cha Cha Cha just down the road from Limbada. The showroom has long disappeared and is now a block of shops.

My other memory of Kwacha Fish and CHips was when my classmate, Danny Minoyi, in first year at UNZANDO (later CBU) died. This was 30 years ago in 1988. We were provided a bus by the university to attend his funeral in Sikanze Police Camp. We bought our lunch from Kwacha Fish and Chips by popular demand !!!

Kwacha Fish Chips is at the exact same location along Freedom Way and is still going strong after half a century in business.

43 years later after that first visit, I can still smell the chips and taste the vinegar and remember the newspaper and brown paper used to wrap the chips, the sausage and the fish we bought that day from Kwacha Fish and Chips.

When we drove home in the new Ford Cortina, my brother and my sister were not excited about the new car, they were very upset that we did not bring extra portions of the sausage and chips !!!