Guy was Guy
JACK ZIMBA GUY Scott, who has died at the age of 82, was one of Zambia’s most well-known white politicians, who went to become the country’s Vice-President, serving under President Michael Sata from 2011. Known for his unfiltered talk, Dr Scott also served as acting President when Mr Sata died, until the country elected its President in 2015. But Guy Scott was more than an accomplished politician. When other boys at school were dreaming of becoming teachers, scientists, lawyers or doctors, Guy Scott's dream was to become a solver of mysteries. And he spent most of his professional life doing just that. The young Guy subjected himself to a long process of formal education, and he chose to study some of the most complex subjects imaginable, from mathematics to light. Light? Yes, he studied how light interacts with matter to form images. “Me,” he once told me as we sat on the verandah of his house in State Lodge just after he was appointed Vice-President, “I like to und...