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Rastafari have become a common sight in Zambia, easily identified by their dreadlocks, “Rasta rainbow” colours, and their entrepreneurship as artists, musicians, and painters. While this “new religious movement” began in Jamaica in the 1930s, […]

Question: How can a nation self-declared as “Christian” sentence a woman to death on the anniversary of the execution of the Messiah? This is not a rhetorical question, but a serious moral and intellectual exercise […]

“I have no particular love for the idealized “worker” as he appears in the bourgeois Communist’s mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do […]

As we prepare to mark World Press Freedom Day , my heart bleeds for the journalists,  newspapers, radio and television stations which have become victims of tyrannical, intolerant  and dictatorial regimes around the world which […]

To my mind, the strongest reason to overturn cannabis prohibition is on moral grounds. Caging millions of non-violent people worldwide for cultivating, distributing, or consuming a natural plant is clearly not the best way to […]

US President Donald Trump has a significant fanbase here in Africa. This is due in part to his populist rhetoric, as African voters are similarly disillusioned with neoliberalism and “politics as usual”. During last year’s […]

Every couple of months, we hear of Kaizer Zulu’s latest exploits. And every couple of months, we learn how the law will not catch up with him; except for the occasional “we are investigating the […]

I love salaula shopping. Not only is it one of my favourite things to do in Lusaka, but also I have taken people―including the reviewer from Lonely Planet travel guides―on tours of the Lumumba road […]

Vodafone have gone down the path of most Zambian companies providing data services in failing to maintain the high standards they set. Their service is now rather annoying, for a company dedicated to providing data only services to a small market such as Zambia with limited Internet penetration.

The struggle for gender equality is far from won and more needs to be done to make it a reality. Even in many of the most advanced countries, one just has to look at how […]