A Fight Over an African Leader’s Body Keeps Getting Weirder

NDOLA, Zambia—In the latest bizarre twist in a bizarre story, fans of the late Zambian President Edgar Lungu have appropriated an English soccer ditty to advocate for the return of his body to the southern African country.

Zambia’s current president, Hakainde Hichilema, wants Lungu—who died in June while seeking medical treatment in South Africa—buried in Zambia. Lungu’s family says he despised Hichilema so much that he barred his political rival from his funeral. They want to keep even more distance between the two men, burying Lungu in Johannesburg. The two sides are fighting it out in court and, now, in bars and on the airwaves.