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...
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...
Service Marks Arrive: Zambia Opens Classes 35–45 Under the New Trade Marks Act
For years a Zambian advertising agency, law firm or security company could build a reputation but not formally register the mark that carried it. The country's trademark system protected goods, not services. That gap has now closed. Zambia's Trade Marks Act No. 11 of...
What Could Derail Zambian Languages in the Digital Age?
The promise of language technology is inclusion. Its default outcome is the opposite. When a digital system learns to understand human speech, it learns from data, and the languages with the most data become the ones the machine hears best. Zambia's languages arrive...
The Governance Test Behind Music, Festivals and Zambia’s Live-Entertainment Economy
A sector can grow its revenue and still fail the people who create its value. That is the governance test now facing Zambia's live-entertainment economy. Audiences are widening, festivals are recurring and sponsors are arriving, yet the systems that decide whether an...
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.
The Regulation, Accountability and Ownership Debate in Traditional Ceremonies as a National Cultural Network
Zambia’s traditional ceremonies face an ownership, politicisation and commercialisation debate. Who captures the value, who is excluded, and the reforms needed.
What Zambia’s job apps teach the cleaning trade
Zambia’s Imisepela app proved the country will look for work on a screen. The cleaning economy can borrow the idea, if it puts the right part of the process online.
Who Benefits From Likumbi Lya Mize and the Makishi Tradition?
Who really benefits from Likumbi Lya Mize and the Makishi tradition? The trade-off between sacred knowledge, custodians, intermediaries and reform.
Minus 50%: The Open-Access Evidence for Liberalising Fuel Supply Chains
Zambia’s TAZAMA open-access framework cut fuel import premiums by about 50% before suspension — the IMF’s clean evidence that competition lowers supply costs.
Climate Is Economic Policy: The IMF’s Adaptation Message to Zambia
The IMF urges Zambia to treat climate adaptation and mitigation as economic policy, citing drought and energy-shock vulnerability that threatens growth and
Kuomboka as Cultural Economy: Growth Versus Public Value
Kuomboka’s commercial growth versus public value: who wins, who is excluded, and the reforms needed to protect meaning and local livelihoods.
The Strategic Choices Ahead for Tourism, Conservation Finance and Community Revenue
Forward scenarios for Zambian tourism as conservation finance: a transparent model tracking both ecosystem health and community income toward 2031.
The Public-Interest Case for Reforming Tourism, Conservation Finance and Community Revenue
Conservation finance can fund Zambia’s parks or turn opaque. The public-interest case for disclosure, verification and community access to the numbers.
From Recent Progress to Long-Term Advantage in Heritage Tourism Beyond Victoria Falls
Can Zambia build a national heritage circuit rather than lean on one icon? Two scenarios to 2031 and the indicators that reveal which future is arriving.