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Sishuwa Sishuwa

Sishuwa Sishuwa is a historian by training, a sharp critic of authoritarian rule by temperament, and the last Zambian nationalist. He is obsessed with all things Zambian, particularly politics and history which he studied and now breathes. Sishuwa is a cadre of Nkana football club and loves Keith Mlevu’s 1976 song, “Ubuntungwa”.

12 Jun 2024 | Sishuwa Sishuwa

This is how Hichilema is using lawfare to subvert democracy

When Zambia experienced democratic backsliding between 2011 and 2021, the deliberate use of legal mechanisms to weaken opposition parties played a central role. Lawfare, as this strategy is popularly known, has been a constant theme […]

29 Jan 2024 | Sishuwa Sishuwa

Compromised by politics? A response to ‘The Judiciary of Zambia’

On 19 January 2024, I wrote a short article in which I asked why all the four cases involving the State-supported Miles Sampa versus the main opposition Patriotic Front (PF) were only allocated to judges […]

14 Jun 2023 | Sishuwa Sishuwa

Why I do what I do

Whenever I hold our elected public leaders to account, some in our country, largely those whose ability to reason is never beyond an adhominem attack – are quick to accuse me of working to advance […]

26 Jan 2023 | Sishuwa Sishuwa

They were clad in decent clothes. They spoke very well, in tongues I could readily understand. They were the kind of people that inspired trust. And trust them I did. They followed me. They came […]

22 Dec 2022 | Sishuwa Sishuwa

Why Hichilema is adored abroad but a disappointment at home

Despite his lack of significant domestic achievements and rising discontentment with his leadership in Zambia, President Hakainde Hichilema has a remarkably positive image abroad. There are two major reasons for this. The first is that […]

21 Oct 2022 | Sishuwa Sishuwa

A false dawn? Be worried, Zambia

After coming to power via a democratic election, President Hakainde Hichilema and the ruling UPND have manipulated the Electoral Commission of Zambia and the judicial process to exclude key opposition candidates from the ballots taking […]

13 Sep 2022 | Sishuwa Sishuwa

Queen Elizabeth II is laid to rest, but not so the past

Many Africans’ largely unsympathetic reaction to the death of British monarch Queen Elizabeth II has come as a surprise to the average British person. This is hardly surprising. Given the passage of time and the […]

25 Aug 2022 | Sishuwa Sishuwa

An assessment of President Hichilema’s first year in Zambia

Nothing demonstrates Zambia’s political polarisation quite as much as the responses to the basic question: how much has President Hakainde Hichilema accomplished in his first year in office? Where his supporters see total economic transformation […]

8 Jul 2022 | Sishuwa Sishuwa

In the end, he was, like the rest of us, simply human: remembering Kenneth Kaunda

Summary: It is impossible to talk about Kenneth Kaunda without timelines. He defies a general or linear description. He was, at different times, many things good or many things bad about people. In the end, […]

17 Apr 2022 | Sishuwa Sishuwa

Understanding the manoeuvres to remove the DPP from office

Despite the security of tenure provided to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), nearly every new president of Zambia ousts the DPP they find in office and installs their own to help […]