Posts tagged Zambia

  A few weeks ago, I put forward a thought experiment that I called “The Great Swap” as follows: Imagine that intelligent aliens come on earth, put everyone to sleep …

Over at Zambia Online, I have recently published a three-part series that attempts to forecast the results of the 2016 Zambian elections. In the first part, I took a historical …

The Zambian government recently made a controversial decision to grant a licence to Zambezi Resources Ltd for copper mining activities in the Lower Zambezi National Park. The action triggered a hullabaloo that …

[NOTE: This article contains references to Zambian organizations and is based around the specific circumstances of the nation but the ideas can be ported anywhere else] Many armchair critics rightly …

Q: What do the following 15 countries have in common? Botswana, Cameroon, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lesotho, Swaziland, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand, Zimbabwe? A: From 1960 to 1970, all …

“I was taken around and shown things as a ‘useful idiot‘… that’s what my role was. I can’t understand why I was so gullible.” — Doris Lessing, British writer and …

The passionate debate surrounding the Lionel Messi Versus Godfrey Chitalu goal-scoring record in a calendar year has been the rage the last few days among Soccer lovers the world over. …

In my ongoing research into the real facts behind the hot-button Barotseland Agreement (BA) issue here in Zambia, I recently went back to the Think Tank debate archives that our company …

When you place a frog in hot water, it jumps out. But put it in cold water and slowly increase the temperature and you shall be able to boil it …

I think that most low-income workers in Africa deserve to be poor because they choose to be poor by their actions and attitude. I know it sounds cruel and counter-intuitive …