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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. Perhaps the best poem to come out of Zambia in rece…

Published: 22 Dec 2015 at 18:39hrs | 2 | 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 loaded with "Lord, Hear our Cry" was ta…

Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 06:52hrs | 6 | 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-ponged my mind; why is the Pope's car …

Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 21:53hrs | 18 | 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. The third president Levy Mwanawasa wa…

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 as yesterday. I was struck not by the sh…

Published: 24 Aug 2015 at 08:04hrs | 2 | 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 normal plant it displays beautiful flower-…

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 south-east into the antithesis of democracy…

Published: 01 Apr 2015 at 06:23hrs | 2 | 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 Stadium, and with a twinkle in his eye, a…

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 title and throw a tantrum of your life…

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 country. The dream is nothing too big than to…

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's name and relate events of the past mo…

Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 08:36hrs | 2 | 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." This is a word frequently used to portra…

Published: 12 Nov 2014 at 06:06hrs | 1 | 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 about. We are at the very bottom of the tot…

Published: 25 Aug 2014 at 08:51hrs | 1 | 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 quick peek at Scott's hand as if to ascertain. T…

Published: 07 Aug 2014 at 08:26hrs | 2 | 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 the ambience of Tel Aviv by the Medite…

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 imagined tears welling from the faces of those wh…

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," he said. "It's not worth it."    His …

Published: 14 May 2014 at 18:34hrs | 1 | 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 Scott has showed us that intelligence is adapta…

Published: 02 Apr 2014 at 12:15hrs | 5 | 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, also has the same year (1936) in her arti…

Published: 03 Feb 2014 at 05:20hrs | 10 | 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 first read that Sata would rather attend Ken…

Published: 15 Dec 2013 at 20:31hrs | 4 | 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 what it takes to maintain a grip on power. We …

Published: 04 Nov 2013 at 12:44hrs | 6 | 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 millennials. In the same way Jagger belts out "S…

Published: 23 Sep 2013 at 15:08hrs | 4 | 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 the PF he is a lifeline - savior and beac…

Published: 29 Jul 2013 at 12:42hrs | 5 | 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. You have put yourselves there. It is you…

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.I felt my eyes fill, but fought back tears. The smile on th…

Published: 05 Sep 2012 at 17:44hrs | 1 | 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. We are the opposition. Under the false wi…

Published: 22 Aug 2012 at 12:07hrs | 1 | by Field Ruwe

We, the Zambinese

"NâˆšÃ‰â€šÃ„Â°âˆšÃ‡Â¬ÃªhâˆšÃ‰â€šÃ„Â°âˆšÃ–Â¬Î©o, nâˆšÃ‰â€šÃ„Â°âˆšÃ‡Â¬ÃªhâˆšÃ‰â€šÃ„Â°âˆšÃ–Â¬Î©o ma? wâˆšÃ‰â€šÃ„Â°âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨â€šÃ‘Â¢ hâˆšÃ‰â€šÃ„Ã»âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨Â¬âˆ«nhâˆšÃ‰â€šÃ„Â°âˆšÃ–Â¬Î©o" translates "hello, how are you?, I'm fine," in Chine…

Published: 14 Jun 2012 at 13:30hrs | 3 | 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 world is somnolent, Africa assumes the s…

Published: 04 Apr 2012 at 04:59hrs | 4 | 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. Take after Mandela, Gates, Jobs, or Einstein. Take after someone who has changed the world. Y…

Published: 23 Feb 2012 at 17:25hrs | 1 | by Field Ruwe

You Lazy (Intellectual) African Scum!

So I got this in my email this morningâˆšÃ‰Â¬Â¢âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ„Ã¶Â¬Â¨âˆšÃ‡Â¬Â¶They call the Third World the lazy man's purview; the sluggishly slothful and languorous prefecture. In this realm people are sleepy, dreamy, torpid, lethargic, and th…

Published: 28 Jan 2012 at 07:22hrs | 6 | by Field Ruwe

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