article_snippet: I grew up in Zambia in the 1980s, an era that marked the beginning of the country's worst economic crisis.
article_snippet: My childhood memories are of a prolonged state of emergency that was characterized by acute food shortages and an economic decline where the basic needs of the average Zambian family were barely met.
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