“Who Is Who and What Is What”
An intimate portrait of Zambian street children
When Chris Lockhart and Daniel Mulilo Chama set out to write Walking the Bowl, a deeply reported look at the lives of street children in Zambia’s capital city, Lusaka, they began with what they didn’t know — exactly how many street children there are in the world, for example. If hard numbers were murky (between ten and fifty million), they were also the most common “information” on offer. Reading the plethora of government and advocacy organizations’ reports on street children, Lockhart and Chama write, “sometimes feels like reading a census taker’s description of hell.”
Together with colleagues, they set out to Walking the Bowl —
