Op-ed, Author at This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/author/thisisafrica1/ Opinion, Lifestyle, Arts, Music #TIA Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:42:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://i0.wp.com/thisisafrica.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-logo-512x512-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Op-ed, Author at This is Africa https://thisisafrica.me/author/thisisafrica1/ 32 32 67616479 Zambia’s opposition did not lose this election on the campaign trail. It lost it at the nomination desk https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/zambias-opposition-did-not-lose-this-election-on-the-campaign-trail/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/zambias-opposition-did-not-lose-this-election-on-the-campaign-trail/?noamp=mobile#respond Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:42:46 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=574287 “The result on Thursday is not really in doubt. What should trouble the likely winner is how little of it was earned in the last three months - and what that says about the state of Zambian politics”.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/zambias-opposition-did-not-lose-this-election-on-the-campaign-trail/feed/ 0 574287 Evidence, inference and democratic legitimacy: Reading the Global Witness report on Zambia https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/evidence-inference-and-democratic-legitimacy-reading-the-global-witness-report-on-zambia/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/evidence-inference-and-democratic-legitimacy-reading-the-global-witness-report-on-zambia/?noamp=mobile#respond Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:02:52 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=574261 Weeks before Zambia’s election, a Global Witness report alleges mining-sector influence over government policy—but explicitly concedes it found no evidence of corruption or illegality. This critique argues the report’s conclusions outstrip its evidence, raising broader questions about methodology, electoral timing, and the evidentiary standards required for claims of institutional capture.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/evidence-inference-and-democratic-legitimacy-reading-the-global-witness-report-on-zambia/feed/ 0 574261 United Africa: Building the future we want https://thisisafrica.me/africans-rising/united-africa-building-the-future-we-want/ https://thisisafrica.me/africans-rising/united-africa-building-the-future-we-want/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:23:49 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=574219 Decades after the 1884 Berlin partition, artificial borders and greed continue to fracture Africa, undermining the African Union's pan-African vision. Yet a powerful counter-movement is rising. By championing a common currency, open borders, and unified global leverage, citizens are demanding structural integration to reclaim the continent’s vast natural wealth, transforming historic divisions into shared prosperity, dignity, and lasting continental security.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/africans-rising/united-africa-building-the-future-we-want/feed/ 0 574219 Mark Carney and the new power calculation, where does Africa stand? https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/carney-and-the-new-power-calculation/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/carney-and-the-new-power-calculation/?noamp=mobile#respond Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:50:24 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573920 Mark Carney’s Davos speech won Western applause as bold truth: the global order has ruptured. Yet the Global South has shouted the same critique for decades—only to be ignored or punished. The real divide? Whose voice gets the standing ovation. The applause reveals not a breakthrough in global thinking, but the persistence of a deeply unequal system of voice, legitimacy, and power.

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]]> https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/carney-and-the-new-power-calculation/feed/ 0 573920 The silence that dictatorship taught us https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/the-silence-that-dictatorship-taught-us/ https://thisisafrica.me/politics-and-society/the-silence-that-dictatorship-taught-us/?noamp=mobile#respond Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:45:25 +0000 https://thisisafrica.me/?p=573771 Togo's silent generation: How dictatorship stifled civic education, participation and shaped a nation's trauma.

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