I recently checked the brochure and couldn’t find anything on our wives or girlfriends having to be friends with each other. You see, just because we grew up together in Chingola or Chelstone or work together, it doesn’t call for the women in our lives to share recipes and skin care routines out of politeness […]
Washington Is Holding Zambia’s HIV Patients Hostage for Minerals.
OPINION: Washington is threatening to withhold HIV treatment unless Zambia hands over access to its copper and cobalt. The terms are worse than anything offered to any other African country. But Zambia has more leverage than it thinks. By Savior Mwambwa Mr. Mwambwa works on economic sovereignty and development finance in the global majority countries. […]
You actually do need new friends as a man.
High chance you don’t want new people around you when you’ve finally minted some success. It helps to filter out the chancers, takers and bringers of confusion. “No new friends” is a common trope for the man who now has a lot to lose after supposedly winning it all. In reality though, you’re undermining yourself […]
Chipolopolo: A bitter bullet to bite.
On Monday night, I watched Morocco dismantle my…OUR beloved Chipolopolo 3-0, and instead of blaming the referee like a normal person, I had an existential breakdown on my couch. I watched something disturbingly familiar unfold. After getting pummelled like nshima at matebeto, our boys scrambled for Hakimi’s jersey with the same enthusiasm they should’ve brought […]
Can we stop looking at other men’s wives?
There a lot of theories out there. Kenneth Kaunda died with the coordinates to where Zambia has oil fields and diamond deposits. Nkana FC is a football club. But none is more ridiculous than the one where you can deduce a man’s success simply by looking at his wife. Ati if you want to assess […]
Do men have a side of the story?
No lube, let’s go. Our tendency to absorb atrocities means we end up as the bad guy in the workplace, relationship, marriage, as a parent or any contentious situation. Societal encouragement to be strong and suffer in silence has us here today. Where nobody hears our side of the story. There are men who were […]
When the network drops, men suffer the most.
[“Can you hear me now?” Everyone’s complaining about dropped calls, network congestion, poor signal strength and interference among a glut of issues. This seems to affect everybody but no more than it does the average Zambian man. ] Over a lifetime, a man builds his own network. The childhood friends he grows up with in his […]
There’s a certain Zambian man who no longer exists.
There was a time a man would never leave the house without a handkerchief. He would also be at the table when it was time for the family to eat what he had worked hard to put on their plates. There were things that were non-negotiable for a certain type of man. A man, it […]
Sample si lema.
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 […]