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The solution is prayer! Understanding Sumaili’s response to the cholera crisisOn 13 January 2018, Minister of National Guidance and Religious Affairs Reverend Godfridah Sumaili announced a one-week national prayer and fasting campaign, effective 15 January, ‘to kick out cholera from the land’. Branding the recent […]
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One Zambia, Two Nations! The disturbing ill-treatment of Tongas in Lungu’s ZambiaI recently attended a social occasion in Lusaka. The event, not unusual in the capital city, brought together Zambians from disparate ethnic groups such as Kaonde, Lunda, Tonga, Bemba, Chewa/Nyanja and Lozi speakers. It was […]
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Corruption or succession politics? Understanding Kalaba’s resignationOn 2 January 2018, Minister of Foreign Affairs Harry Kalaba resigned his Cabinet position in protest against the ‘swelling levels of greed and corruption’ under President Edgar Lungu’s watch. Kalaba, 41, also criticised the government’s […]
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Class of 2017: Zambians who inspired or disappointed last yearAcross 2017, Zambia experienced no shortage of disappointments and setbacks. Yet there are some individuals whose courage and principles made them inspiring figures in the political landscape. Here, I list two sets of citizens of […]
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He is not Lungu. But what else does Hichilema offer Zambian voters?On 17 December 2017, opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema appeared on Sunday Interview, a Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) television programme hosted by Grevazio Zulu every Sunday evening that typically […]
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What our military, politicians can learn from Zimbabwe…so farThe seizure of power in Zimbabwe by the military presents important lessons for Zambia, for the rest of the southern Africa region and for the continent as a whole. Given that things are still in […]
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Explaining Lungu’s threats to judges, obsession for a third termKenya’s Supreme Court judges, who in September invalidated the initial re-election of Uhuru Kenyatta on grounds of unconstitutional irregularities, have attracted deserved applause from across Africa for their refusal to bow before presidential power and […]
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Chinese Confucius Institutes and the cultural war in AfricaThe first building that one comes across when entering the University of Zambia, which sits on the terraces of a busy motorway to and from Lusaka’s main international airport, is an imposing and massive building […]
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The inevitable outcome: understanding Hichilema’s release from prisonOn 16 August, opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) leader Hakainde Hichilema walked to freedom after spending four months in detention. This moment was celebrated as a coup for the Commonwealth, a sign of […]
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Kenya’s success, Zambia’s failure: courts, constitutions and electionsThe recent invalidation of the re-election of Uhuru Kenyatta as President of Kenya by the country’s Supreme Court is a refreshing development that provides a stark and painful reminder of what Zambia’s democracy lacks today: […]
