Ever noticed how doing something wrong is so easy? How heavily incentivized you are to not do the right thing? The life of a man has been modified to reward short cuts publicly and hard, diligent work privately. That’s why ‘sample si lema.’ You may not be familiar with street parlance so I’ll explain what […]
The Forgotten Half: Why the 2025 Exam Results Are a Wake-Up Call for the Boy Child
By Ceaser Siwale, Vice-Chair BCAZ Lusaka, Zambia — The release of the 2025 national examination results by Education Minister Douglas Syakalima was more than just an annual academic ritual; it was a siren. For the first time in recent memory, the government explicitly flagged a “shocking” trend: the Zambian Boy Child is significantly lagging. While we celebrate […]
“Commodities” – can you procure them as is conventional wisdom going forward?
Views By Tshepo Magagane “Commodities” – can you procure them as is conventional wisdom going forward? Conversations with the majority of people from the West will have you going “wtf is that” – not even angry, just “wtf was that”! [Actual strategic ownership includes the control of the offtake contracts coming from that mine, the […]
The Red Metal Renaissance: Navigating the Path to the $20,000 Tonne
Observations By Ceaser Siwale As we close the week with copper trading just shy of USD 12,000 per tonne, the market is sending a clear signal: the era of cheap copper is over. The global market has entered a period of definitive structural transformation, shedding its historical cyclicity to embrace a narrative of secular scarcity. […]
Copper on Steroids: Red Metal Charges Toward $12,000 on Supply Crunch and Fed Cut Hopes
Mutisunge Zulu Chief Risk Officer | Global Executive PhD Cand. Business Mgt, AI & Strategy at ESCP Business School | Global Executive MBA (Manchester) | Advanced Management Program (Harvard) | December 10, 2025 Copper’s surge toward $12,000 per ton is not just another chapter in commodity-market volatility – it is the clearest indication yet that […]
Africa 2025: When Politics Test Markets – And Markets Test Institutions
Mutisunge Zulu Chief Risk Officer | Global Executive PhD Cand. Business Mgt, AI & Strategy at ESCP Business School | Global Executive MBA (Manchester) | Advanced Management Program (Harvard) | December 11, 2025 Why Risk Premia Are Repricing Capacity, Not Headlines Markets have long priced political noise in Africa, but 2025 is forcing something deeper: […]
Op-ed: The Scramble for Africa’s Minerals Continues. This Time, Africans Must Write the Rules.
The US-DRC deal and Lobito Corridor represent a historic moment. Whether it becomes a turning point depends on choices African governments make now. By Savior Mwambwa December 9, 2025 The ink on the US-DRC Strategic Partnership Agreement signed last week in Washington is barely dry, but its implications will reverberate across the continent for decades. […]
When Copper Breaks the Model: Three Futures No One Planned For
Written By: Mutisunge Zulu Chief Risk Officer | Global Executive PhD Cand. Business Mgt, AI & Strategy at ESCP Business School | Global Executive MBA (Manchester) Copper’s breach above $11,000/MT didn’t just surprise markets, it invalidated the analytical architecture many of us have used for decades. What the industry long regarded as a cyclical industrial […]
From Grievance to Design
By Dean N Onyambu For years, we have said, “Africa pays too much to borrow because the rating agencies are biased.” That anger is understandable. It is also incomplete. In sovereign markets, default is the crash. The spread is the cost of insurance. Investors are not only looking at who has crashed before. They are […]
Zambia Just Got a Credit Upgrade: What It Actually Means for You in Simple Terms
By Savior Mwambwa Fitch Ratings (one of the world’s three major credit rating agencies) has upgraded Zambia’s Long-Term Foreign-Currency (LTFC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘B-‘ from ‘RestrictedDefault’ (RD). This is according to Fitch’s own rating action commentary released on Friday 28th November 2025 titled: “Fitch Upgrades Zambia to ‘B-‘; Outlook Stable”Think of it like […]