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David Julian Wightman
David Julian Wightman is a Zambian-Canadian journalist and human rights activist.
8 Jul 2017
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David Julian Wightman
How much will we bare under the Threatened State of Emergency
Speaking 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 […]
18 Jun 2017
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David Julian Wightman
Zambia’s war on cannabis is insane, immoral
The 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, […]
10 Jun 2017
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David Julian Wightman
Exchanging nude photos privately shouldn’t be a crime
Imagine 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? […]
27 May 2017
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David Julian Wightman
Against Cultural Conservatism
Cultural 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 […]
10 May 2017
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David Julian Wightman
Rastafari: Roots and repression in Zambia
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, […]
3 May 2017
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David Julian Wightman
Screw the Death Penalty
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 […]
25 Apr 2017
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David Julian Wightman
A Brief History of the Police State in Zambia
“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 […]
10 Apr 2017
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David Julian Wightman
The Economics of Legal Weed
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 […]
1 Apr 2017
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David Julian Wightman
President Trump is no friend of Africa
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 […]
20 Mar 2017
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David Julian Wightman
In Defence of Informal Traders
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 […]
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