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...
What Success Would Look Like in Zambian Languages in the Digital Age
It is easy to describe how Zambian languages could fail in the digital age. Describing success is harder, and more useful. A country does not steer toward a warning; it steers toward a picture of where it wants to be. So set the picture for 2031: what would it...
The Fuel-Tax Trade-Off: US$200m and What It Signals for Zambian Business
Cheaper fuel at the pump and a healthier national balance sheet rarely come from the same decision. Zambia has just been shown the bill for choosing the first. Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane has disclosed that suspending VAT and excise on fuel cost the...
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 Investment Map for Zambian Languages in the Digital Age
Zambia holds more than seventy languages, yet almost none of them can be spoken to a machine. A trader in Kitwe can bank on a phone, but not in Bemba; a farmer near Mongu can search the web, but not in Lozi. That gap between how the country actually talks and what its...
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.
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...
The Businesses Behind Music, Festivals and Zambia’s Live-Entertainment Economy
Where the commercial opportunity sits in Zambia’s music economy: ticketing, venues, touring, publishing, brand partnerships and music tourism.
Fewer Bottlenecks: The Grid Dividends of Zambia’s Energy Swap
Beyond new megawatts, Zambia’s debt-for-energy swap promises grid dividends: stronger distribution, fewer technical losses, new connections and drought
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.
Ten Systems That Turn a Solo Cleaner Into a Company
One cleaner can only clean so many houses. A company is built from ten simple systems that let the work happen without the founder in the room. Here is the blueprint.
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 Historical Architecture of Music, Festivals and Zambia’s Live-Entertainment Economy
How Zambia’s music moved from church, township and traditional roots to a festival, streaming and sponsorship-driven live-entertainment economy.
African-Owned: Why GreenCo’s Debt-for-Energy Swap Could Spread Across the Continent
Coordinated by GreenCo Power Services and backed by the AfDB, Zambia’s debt-for-energy swap is built on African ownership and designed to be copied across the
Five Ways to Package Move-In, Move-Out and Post-Build Cleaning
A property clean is easy to sell and hard to buy when the offer is just the word cleaning. Five packaging choices turn it into a product a developer or tenant can say yes to.
Zambia’s Housing Push Is Quietly Building a Cleaning Market
Behind every completed house, every renovation and every change of tenant is a cleaning job. As Zambia builds to close a 1.5 million-unit deficit, those jobs are multiplying.
Six Stages From Buying Chemicals to Your Own Cleaning Line
Making cleaning product is a ladder, not a leap. Here is how a Zambian service operator can move from buying chemicals to a branded line without betting the business on a factory.
The Next Frontier in Zambian Film and the Rise of ZAMIFF
Three scenarios for Zambian film to 2031: a festival without an industry, a domestic industry, or a regional content exporter, and the indicators to track.
Stability for Sale: How ZDA Pitched Credit Upgrades to Critical-Mineral Investors
At a Suzhou copper forum, Zambia’s ZDA courted critical-mineral and energy investors with macro stability: 6-8% inflation, a firmer kwacha and improved credit
Cleaning Is a Supply Chain With a Factory at One End
Cleaning looks like labour, but behind every cloth is a detergent plant and a supply chain. How local manufacturing moves the sector up the value chain in Zambia.