Guest Diggers
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The culture of me, myself and I in leadershipStrengthening and deepening democracy involves more than the holding of regular elections disputed or otherwise. There is a long of list of other checklists and benchmarks which must be met continuously. Of more immediate importance, […]
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How much will we bare under the Threatened State of EmergencySpeaking upon his return to Zambia from the AU conference in Addis, President Edgar Lungu asked the nation to bare with him as his government investigates the fire that gutted Lusaka City Market recently. “If […]
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The deadly silence of Zambia’s intelligentsia on public discourseWhat do Zambia’s intellectuals (those trained in a particular discipline and attached to a university faculty) think about the pitiful state of our existence today, including what is happening in North-Western Province, where we, as […]
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Dialogue before situation becomes irredeemableOn the occasion of Heroes and Unity Days Our country has come a long way to get to where we are today. Our founding fathers and mothers sacrificed so much for all of us to […]
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Zambia’s war on cannabis is insane, immoralThe headline is no exaggeration: the war on cannabis currently being waged by the Drug Enforcement Commission and Zambian judges and magistrates is completely insane and deeply immoral. Consider the sad case of Shakapeter Mzumala, […]
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The wholesale suspension of UPND MPs: legal but undemocraticOn 13 June 2017, Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini suspended 48 opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) members of parliament for 30 days for missing President Edgar Lungu’s state of the nation […]
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Exchanging nude photos privately shouldn’t be a crimeImagine sitting in your living room watching TV and noticing someone outside looking in your window. How would you feel? What if that stranger is looking in the bedroom window at you and your lover? […]
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Against Cultural ConservatismCultural conservatism is once again rearing its ugly head in Zambia, in strange and somewhat contradictory ways. First there was that bizarre bit of news, which we later heard was fake, where Zambia Police spokeswoman […]
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Africa has a leadership crisisAfrica Freedom Day is an important day set aside by our founding fathers to mark the day when the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) -now known as the African Union – was founded on 25th […]
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When the State Becomes a False Prophet: How Rev. Sumaili’s views threaten Zambia’s constitutionalismZambia’s minister of religious affairs and national guidance, the Honourable Reverend Godfridah Sumaili spoke with the Zambia Blog Talk Radio on Saturday, May 20, 2017. I found her sentiments in that interview to be deeply […]
