Understanding the rift between Lungu and LAZ

The culture of me, myself and I in leadership

How much will we bare under the Threatened State of Emergency

The deadly silence of Zambia’s intelligentsia on public discourse

Dialogue before situation becomes irredeemable

Zambia’s war on cannabis is insane, immoral
By David Julian Wightman on 18 Jun 2017
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....
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The wholesale suspension of UPND MPs: legal but undemocratic
By Sishuwa Sishuwa on 14 Jun 2017
On 13 June 2017, Speaker of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini suspended 48 opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) members of parliament for 30....
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Exchanging nude photos privately shouldn’t be a crime
By David Julian Wightman on 10 Jun 2017
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....
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Against Cultural Conservatism
By David Julian Wightman on 27 May 2017
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,....
Africa has a leadership crisis
By Dr. Vernon J Mwaanga on 24 May 2017
Africa Freedom Day is an important day set aside by our founding fathers to mark the day when the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) -now....
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When the State Becomes a False Prophet: How Rev. Sumaili’s views threaten Zambia’s constitutionalism
By Elias Munshya on 23 May 2017
Zambia’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.....
Rastafari: Roots and repression in Zambia
By David Julian Wightman on 10 May 2017
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....
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Screw the Death Penalty
By David Julian Wightman on 3 May 2017
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 Brief History of the Police State in Zambia
By David Julian Wightman on 25 Apr 2017
“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....
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My heart bleeds for the journalists
By Dr. Vernon J Mwaanga on 25 Apr 2017
As we prepare to mark World Press Freedom Day , my heart bleeds for the journalists, newspapers, radio and television stations which have become victims....
The Economics of Legal Weed
By David Julian Wightman on 10 Apr 2017
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....
President Trump is no friend of Africa
By David Julian Wightman on 1 Apr 2017
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....
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Why is Kaizer Zulu above the Law?
By Mwangala Simataa on 25 Mar 2017
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....
In Defence of Informal Traders
By David Julian Wightman on 20 Mar 2017
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....
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Vodafone’s Declining Service Delivery
By Michael Chishala on 9 Mar 2017
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....
New Era: Women a danger to themselves
By Dr. Vernon J Mwaanga on 7 Mar 2017
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....
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My Money My Data: Why should Internet bundles expire?
By Michael Chishala on 1 Mar 2017
In the early days of the Cellphone industry, there was a practice by the mobile phone providers that whenever you bought talk time, it would....
Stephen Chan: African elections and their observation
By Guest Digger on 1 Mar 2017
By STEPHEN CHAN ABSTRACT The first large-scale election observation was held in 1980, at the independence elections in Zimbabwe. Since then, election observation has become....