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Hichilema: Absolute power corrupts absolutely
I could not believe what I was hearing. I tried to reassure myself that I was only dreaming. For the third time, I played the video and listened gravely. Again, the words fell like stones into the roo...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 11:38hrs | 1025 | by Dr. Field Ruwe
We, the 'Useful Idiots'
Please Note: The term "useful idiots" applies to those individuals, including politicians, who are being derisively used by the Chinese for a cause they are reluctant to fully comprehend. Perh...Published: 22 Dec 2015 at 18:39hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Taking advantage of God's flock: Why October 18 should not be a holiday
President Edgar Lungu's voice stirred the crowd into a frenzy causing some to speak in tongues and others to mutter the words "Glory be to God!" Lungu heard them and knew his carefully crafted prayer ...Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 06:52hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Jay-Z, his nose, your nose, and the Pope's black Fiat
At the Washington DC's Joint Base Andrews Airport, President Barack Obama and his cavalcade of men in black shepherded Pope Francis through an ecstatic crowd to a tiny black Fiat. Inane questions ping...Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 21:53hrs | 9 | by Field Ruwe
Ranking Zambian Presidents: See where Lungu stands
Since 1964, our country has had six presidents. The first president Kenneth Kaunda suffered a qualitative declivity. The second president Frederick Chiluba was driven by a fateful sense of entitlement...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 07:14hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Why Mugabe flushed Obama's speech in the Lavatory
Obama reminds me of the farmer in the "Parable of the Sower" in Matthew 13 who scattered seed "some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up." His recent trip to Africa remains as fresh a...Published: 24 Aug 2015 at 08:04hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Edgar Lungu in the Chinese Venus flytrap
Like a Venus Flytrap China is dexterously masticating Zambia. First, let me explain what a Venus Flytrap is; it is a predator plant that attracts and captures insects and devours them. Posing as a nor...Published: 15 Apr 2015 at 07:08hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Edgar Lungu's first fatal mistake
It's been three months since Edgar Lungu became Zambia's sixth president. Back in January, fresh from the swearing ceremony, the impressionable president jumped into the presidential jet and flew ...Published: 01 Apr 2015 at 06:23hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Edgar Lungu treading on thin ice
Just past the hour, the motorcade passed the gates to a tumultuous welcome. Edgar Lungu, dressed in a blue suit and a matador tie, stepped out of the Mercedes that had transported him to the Heroes St...Published: 08 Feb 2015 at 23:49hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Mwango: The lone Bemba in the voting booth
Proceed with anything but caution when reading this article. In a country where tribalism exhales an unpleasant whiff the above title is enough to accuse me of fanning tribal embers. Don't look at the...Published: 12 Jan 2015 at 07:12hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Excuse me! Let me speak
Excuse me! Let me speak. If you let me I shall speak calmly and rationally. When I am done let come on me what may for I have staked my life in order to fulfill nothing less than a dream for my co...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 05:41hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Hunt for Successor: God has spoken
"God works in mysterious ways," is a trite so often uttered at the pulpit, and it is the one that precedes my article. I know there are many who will recoil with repulsion at my audacity to evoke God'...Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 08:36hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Michael Chilufya Sata: Hero or Villain
On the day President Michael Chilufya Sata died Reuters carried the headline "Zambia's President 'King Cobra' Sata dies." The New York Times of October 30, 2014 described him as an "acerbic leader...Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 06:06hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Independence: African lazy day
I could go to prison just for the title; for dampening the spirit of commemoration, and yet I would gladly go. This is a title that befits the occasion. Google the world and see what I am talking ...Published: 25 Aug 2014 at 08:51hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Zambians should keep Scott away from State house
The tremor in his right hand was incessant. Earlier when they had met, David had felt a little quiver in the handshake, more like an eel touch. As the interview progressed he kept sneaking a qu...Published: 07 Aug 2014 at 08:26hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Heartless Michael Sata
Not once did I picture the President Michael Sata in the presence of Shimon Peres seeping kosher wine and laughing in chivalry. Nor did I envision him and his wife enjoying the serenity and basking in...Published: 06 Jul 2014 at 16:41hrs | | by Field Ruwe
I shed a tear for President Sata
With tear-bleared eyes I looked at the picture of the president. I know I am his critic, but I felt a touch of pity and choked, distraught at the sight of him. What heart could not bleed? I imagin...Published: 27 May 2014 at 14:57hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Zambia Hunts for Successor 58 - Cabinet Crisis: Time to defang and cure Sata
As the Honorable Minister shut the door to his official car, a sense of worthlessness threatened to overwhelm him. He closed his eyes and felt anger rising in tandem. "This is too much," ...Published: 14 May 2014 at 18:34hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Zambia's vice president is proof intelligence in humans is same
Vice President Guy Scott has proved wrong all white racists who in their sick effort to preserve White dominance claim that Africans have the lowest IQ (Intelligence Quotient). Over the years Sc...Published: 02 Apr 2014 at 12:15hrs | 1 | by Field Ruwe
Biography of President Michael Chilufya Sata
The "Africa Year Book and Who's Who" (1977) edition has President Michael Sata's date of birth as January 6, 1936. Aislinn Laing, the Telegraph reporter who interviewed Sata at State House in 2011...Published: 03 Feb 2014 at 05:20hrs | 2 | by Field Ruwe
Sata, our insensitive leader shuns Mandela
Anxiously, I waited as Cyril Ramaphosa announced the names of leaders present, but before he got to Zambia, I saw Guy Scott in the VIP locale and my heart sank into the pit of my stomach. When I f...Published: 15 Dec 2013 at 20:31hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Kaunda held hostage by President Sata
A thousand hearts bleed for KK as he is helplessly dragged into the dungeon of destruction by President Michael Sata. At best, a shrewd tactician and strategist, Sata is skillful at discerning wh...Published: 04 Nov 2013 at 12:44hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Decolonizing Ngungi's mentality
Prophet of DoomLike Sir Mick "Phillip" Jagger of the of the Rolling Stones, Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o of the African Writers Series fame packs halls with nostalgic baby boomers and curious mille...Published: 23 Sep 2013 at 15:08hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Sata, a danger to our children
I would like to start my article with a question, if I may: what makes president Sata to snap and cut his rivals in shreds with his tongue? I know some of you adore and worship him, and for many in th...Published: 29 Jul 2013 at 12:42hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Money the root of all evil
"Money is the root of all evil," the email read. "It is the reason you Africans are a failure; a dependent of the West. It is the reason you languish at the bottom of the totem pole. Don't blame us. ...Published: 03 Jun 2013 at 03:35hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Are We the People God Forgot!
Gripped by a sense of failure, I sat on the bench and stared at the horizon in the direction of my motherland. A jab of pain couldn't let go."Are we the forgotten people?" I asked....Published: 05 Sep 2012 at 17:44hrs | | by Field Ruwe
The Sata - Mugabe fatal 'patriotic' camaraderie
The alarm bells are chiming as one of the most disconcerting relationships brews right before our eyes. We are worried, concerned about the Sata-Mugabe connection and yet we remain as mute as lamb. ...Published: 22 Aug 2012 at 12:07hrs | 1 | by Field Ruwe
We, the Zambinese
"Nǐhǎo, nǐhǎo ma? wǒ hěnhǎo" translates "...Published: 14 Jun 2012 at 13:30hrs | | by Field Ruwe
African intellectuals should be jailed
Africa, the lowliest of the continents is still nocturnal. It is in this disposition that it emerges a superpower, greater than the United States, Britain, and China combined. In the night, when the w...Published: 04 Apr 2012 at 04:59hrs | | by Field Ruwe
Cecil John Rhodes was a bigoted buffoon
A Sequel to 'Zambian Intellectuals are LazyI told my son not to take after me; break tradition chains, remove old edicts, and create new rituals. T...Published: 23 Feb 2012 at 17:25hrs | | by Field Ruwe
You Lazy (Intellectual) African Scum!
So I got this in my email this morning…They call the Third World the lazy man's purview; the sluggishly slothful and languorous prefecture. In this realm peopl...Published: 28 Jan 2012 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Field Ruwe
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