Ten-Year Marks and Madrid: Inside Zambia’s Trademark Overhaul
A trademark that had to be renewed every seven years, could only cover one class at a time, and stopped at the national border was a system built for a smaller, slower economy. Zambia has replaced it. The new Trade Marks Act overhauls the mechanics of brand...
Cabanga TV is live: watch how Zambian coffee found a new market
A Boer goat farm, a microloan start-up, local entrepreneurs taking on the chains and a Malawian nurse turned farmer are among the stories now free to watch. LUSAKA, 17 October 2026 - Zambia is only beginning to scale its coffee, and it has already found a fast-growing...
Fewer Bottlenecks: The Grid Dividends of Zambia’s Energy Swap
A power deal is usually sold on the megawatts it adds. The more telling number is often the losses it removes. Zambia's debt-for-energy swap is being pitched not only on new generation but on the unglamorous gains downstream: stronger distribution networks, fewer...
Ten Systems That Turn a Solo Cleaner Into a Company
A solo cleaner hits a ceiling made of hours. There are only so many houses one pair of hands can clean in a week, and no amount of effort moves that wall. Becoming a company means the work happening without you in the room, and that is a systems problem, not an effort...
African-Owned: Why GreenCo’s Debt-for-Energy Swap Could Spread Across the Continent
Most African energy financing arrives wearing someone else's name. A donor's, a multilateral's, a foreign utility's. Zambia's debt-for-energy swap is built to read differently. Coordinated by GreenCo Power Services and supported by the African Development Bank, the...
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Ten-Year Marks and Madrid: Inside Zambia’s Trademark Overhaul
Zambia’s new Trade Marks Act extends renewal from 7 to 10 years, allows multi-class applications, and domesticates the Madrid Protocol for filings via PACRA.
The Current State of Livingstone International Cultural and Arts Festival
Weighing LICAF’s 2022 to June 2026 progress in Livingstone — separating measurable gains in tourism and the arts from announcements still awaiting figures.
Livingstone International Cultural and Arts Festival Across the Decades
How the Livingstone International Cultural and Arts Festival turned a colonial-era gateway town into a regional cultural crossroads across the decades.
Economics
Cabanga TV is live: watch how Zambian coffee found a new market
A Boer goat farm, a microloan start-up, local entrepreneurs taking on the chains and a Malawian nurse turned farmer are among the stories now free to watch. LUSAKA, 17 October 2026 - Zambia is only beginning to scale its coffee, and it has already found a fast-growing...
Fewer Bottlenecks: The Grid Dividends of Zambia’s Energy Swap
A power deal is usually sold on the megawatts it adds. The more telling number is often the losses it removes. Zambia's debt-for-energy swap is being pitched not only on new generation but on the unglamorous gains downstream: stronger distribution networks, fewer...
Ten Systems That Turn a Solo Cleaner Into a Company
A solo cleaner hits a ceiling made of hours. There are only so many houses one pair of hands can clean in a week, and no amount of effort moves that wall. Becoming a company means the work happening without you in the room, and that is a systems problem, not an effort...
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Ten-Year Marks and Madrid: Inside Zambia’s Trademark Overhaul
A trademark that had to be renewed every seven years, could only cover one class at a time, and stopped at the national border was a system built for a smaller, slower economy. Zambia has replaced it. The new Trade Marks Act overhauls the mechanics of brand...
The Current State of Livingstone International Cultural and Arts Festival
A festival can generate two very different things — headlines and results — and they are easy to confuse. Every cultural event announces itself as a success; far fewer can show what actually changed. For the Livingstone International Cultural and Arts Festival, the...
Livingstone International Cultural and Arts Festival Across the Decades
Livingstone was built to be passed through. Laid out in the colonial era as a railway and river town at the edge of the Victoria Falls, its whole purpose was movement — of goods, of travellers, of empire heading north and south. A place designed as a gateway has to...
Lifestyle
Livingstone International Cultural and Arts Festival Across the Decades
Livingstone was built to be passed through. Laid out in the colonial era as a railway and river town at the edge of the Victoria Falls, its whole purpose was movement — of goods, of travellers, of empire heading north and south. A place designed as a gateway has to...
Before the Current Boom: Reconstructing Zambian Languages in the Digital Age
Zambia speaks in dozens of voices, yet for most of the digital era the machines it uses have understood almost none of them. Bemba, Nyanja, Tonga, Lozi and the country's many other languages carry the nation's oral history, its humour, its music and the everyday...
The Historical Architecture of Music, Festivals and Zambia’s Live-Entertainment Economy
Zambia has never been short of sound. What it has often lacked is the commercial architecture to turn that sound into an economy. For decades the country's music lived in churches, townships and village ceremonies, carried by voices, drums and radio rather than by...
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Ten-Year Marks and Madrid: Inside Zambia’s Trademark Overhaul
Zambia’s new Trade Marks Act extends renewal from 7 to 10 years, allows multi-class applications, and domesticates the Madrid Protocol for filings via PACRA.
Service Marks Arrive: Zambia Opens Classes 35–45 Under the New Trade Marks Act
Zambia’s Trade Marks Act No. 11 of 2023 became operational for services in Feb 2026, opening Classes 35-45 so service providers can register service marks.
What Could Derail Zambian Languages in the Digital Age?
Language technology can marginalise Zambian languages that lack datasets and standardisation. The winners, the excluded and the reforms Zambia needs.
The Governance Test Behind Music, Festivals and Zambia’s Live-Entertainment Economy
Zambia’s music economy is growing, but weak royalties, piracy, informal contracts and scarce venues decide who actually gets paid.
Cleaning Firms Need Systems Before They Need More Clients
More clients will not save a disorganised cleaning business; they will expose it. The case for building records, crew control and supply systems before you scale the sales.
The Institutional Bottleneck in Zambian Film and the Rise of ZAMIFF
Zambian film’s real bottleneck is institutional: talent is outpacing funding, copyright and distribution. Who wins, who is excluded, and the reforms needed.
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The Current State of Livingstone International Cultural and Arts Festival
Weighing LICAF’s 2022 to June 2026 progress in Livingstone — separating measurable gains in tourism and the arts from announcements still awaiting figures.
What Success Would Look Like in Zambian Languages in the Digital Age
What success looks like if Zambia makes language technology part of cultural sovereignty and digital inclusion — with indicators to track toward 2031.
The Four-Year Shift in Zambian Languages in the Digital Age
A 2022-2026 audit of Zambian-language technology: real open datasets for Bemba and others, but few finished tools and thin coverage still ahead.
What Music, Festivals and Zambia’s Live-Entertainment Economy Could Mean for Zambia by 2031
Two scenarios for Zambia’s music economy by 2031, and the rights, data and regional-export indicators that will decide which one arrives.
Cabanga TV is live: watch how Zambian coffee found a new market
A Boer goat farm, a microloan start-up, local entrepreneurs taking on the chains and a Malawian nurse turned farmer are among the stories now free to watch. LUSAKA, 17 October 2026 - Zambia is only beginning to scale its coffee, and it has already found a fast-growing...
Reading the 2022-2026 Evidence on Music, Festivals and Zambia’s Live-Entertainment Economy
A 2022-2026 audit of Zambia’s live-entertainment economy: real gains in reach and festivals versus sponsorship pledges and a persistent data gap.