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...
From 0.5% to 7.5%: The Step-Up Clause Sovereign Investors Are Watching
A bond coupon that climbs only when the borrower's fortunes improve sounds like a fair bargain, until you are the borrower watching the trigger approach. That is the tension now playing out around Zambia's 2053 notes, where a buyback dispute has put a step-up clause...
The Four-Year Shift in Zambian Languages in the Digital Age
Progress in language technology is easy to announce and hard to verify. A single published dataset can be described as a breakthrough or as a modest first step, depending on who is speaking and what they are selling. For Zambian languages in the digital age, the...
KYC Under Pressure: Why K146bn in Illicit Flows Falls on Zambia’s Banks
Every illicit kwacha that leaves Zambia has to pass through someone's books first. That is the uncomfortable truth behind the country's latest financial-crime numbers. The Financial Intelligence Centre has reported K146.18bn in illicit financial flows between 2022 and...
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...
Eight Moves That Make a Cleaning Business One Institutions Will Buy From
Zambia’s formalisation programme calls registration the least of it. Eight moves – records, banking, contracts, market access – build the operating system institutions can buy from.
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.
Register the Cleaning Business for a Reason, Not a Rule
Most Zambian cleaning firms start as one woman with a bucket. When does registering with PACRA, ZRA and NAPSA stop being paperwork and start unlocking growth?
Five Layers That Turn a Cleaner’s Claim Into a Checkable Record
The strongest thing a domestic worker can carry is a record that separates her own say-so from what someone else can confirm. Five layers for building it.
MUSIKA launches a Managed Sourcing Desk for Zambian Businesses
Agricultural, construction and industrial buyers can submit requirements for South African supply and coordinated fulfilment. Musika launches today for Zambian businesses sourcing goods from South Africa. The platform combines a catalogue with a procurement desk that...
Strong Kwacha, Soft Margins: The Currency Side of Zambia’s Stable Food Prices
Zambia’s maize prices held stable in March 2026 on a bumper harvest and a strong kwacha easing imported inflation, but exporters still face currency risk.
The Investment Map for Zambian Film and the Rise of ZAMIFF
The investment map for Zambian film: production services, TV and streaming distribution, animation, training and regional co-productions as ZAMIFF scales.
Before You Hand Over a Gate Key, Verify the Record
Zambian homes still hire cleaners on a relative’s word and a phone number. How to turn that guess into two checkable steps that protect both household and worker.
Seven Checks to Run Before You Clean a Food-Service Kitchen
A restaurant kitchen is not an office with a stove. Seven checks to run before the first surface is wiped, built from what Zambian health inspectors close premises for.
Zambian Film and the Rise of ZAMIFF Between 2022 and June 2026: What Changed
A 2022 to June 2026 audit of ZAMIFF and Zambian film: separating measurable institutional gains from announcements still awaiting delivery.
Why a Closed Restaurant in Mpika Is a Market Signal for Cleaners
When Mpika Town Council closed seven restaurants over hygiene failures, it made cleanliness a condition of trading. That is why food-service compliance creates recurring demand for cleaners who work to a system.
The Cobalt Math: How Stock Draw-Downs Outpaced Zambia’s Production
Zambia exported 1,876.7 tonnes of cobalt against 1,401 tonnes produced from 2019-24. The gap exposes by-product dependence, re-exports and the beneficiation
Dr. John Alpha Arufandika: Why Africa Needs AI That Speaks Its Own Languages
Dr John Alpha Arufandika, founder of Aptiva AI and winner of the 2025 LIST Emerging Technologies Impact Award, is building secure, private AI in fourteen Southern African languages. African businesses are adopting artificial intelligence at speed, and most of it is...
The Part of Event Professionalism Nobody Books Until It Goes Wrong
Zambia is winning bids for continental conferences on a promise of world-class standards. The least glamorous test of that promise is whether the venue is clean before the doors open and after they close.
US$10 Billion In: How Mining Capital Is Chasing Zambia’s 3 Mt Copper Target
Mines Minister Kabuswe says US$10bn in mining investment flowed into Zambia from 2022–26 toward a 3 Mt copper goal by 2031; 2025 output hit 890,346 tonnes, up