One Year On – Reflecting on my Service for Zambia in Canberra

By Dr Elias Munshya Today marks a significant milestone – precisely one year since I arrived in Canberra, Australia, to … More

Australia, Tourism and Trade: My Meeting with Uganda’s H.E. Dorothy Hyuha

During my courtesy call on Her Excellency Dorothy Hyuha, Uganda’s High Commissioner to Australia, we had a productive discussion on … More

Strengthening African Diplomatic Ties In Australia: My Meeting with Zimbabwe’s Ambassador Joe Mhishi

As African nations work towards shared goals of economic development, security, and prosperity, strong diplomatic ties between nations are more … More

ICRC Director-General Meets with Canberra’s Diplomatic Corps

As the High Commissioner for Zambia in Australia, I recently had the privilege of attending a briefing by Robert Mardini, … More

AMB. DR. ELIAS MUNSHYA’S REMARKS ON GHANA’S INDEPENDENCE DAY

On this special day, we celebrate Ghana’s independence anniversary and commemorate the bravery and sacrifices of the Ghanaian people who … More

Exploring the Victoria Falls: My Experience

As Zambia’s High Commissioner to Australia, I am delighted to share my experience of visiting one of the world’s most … More

My Tour of Royalla Solar Farm in Canberra

Canberra – February 7, 2023 We were privileged today to receive at our office Mr. Peter Bulanyi, CEO of Mega … More

My Virtual Meeting with Zambian Community Leaders in Australia and New Zealand

On Saturday, January 21, 2023, the Zambian Mission virtually met leaders of the Zambian associations in Australia and New Zealand. … More

Milingo Lungu v. AG – Documents filed in the Constitutional Court April 19, 2022

Download Elias Munshya’s Ph.D. Dissertation: “Church and State Relations in Zambia: an evangelical perspective”

TVBAKWETU: The story of our involvement in the victory of the new dawn revolution

By Elias Munshya Where history is written by the victors, or rather, by a section of the victors, it becomes … More

Lawyers Accounts and Money Laundering: Has LAZ Failed to Regulate and Discipline Its Members?

By Elias Munshya The most critical issue right now regarding lawyer regulation in Zambia is not about whether some lawyers … More

Inside Edgar Lungu’s “Kelenka Debt Swap”

By Elias Munshya Just days before the general elections, the Patriotic Front government has suddenly got a brilliant idea. They … More

Citizenship and the Myth of Indigeneity in Congo, Zambia, Malawi and Beyond

by Elias Munshya A proposal is currently making its way through the Democratic Republic of Congo’s national assembly to change … More

The Malawian who Ruled Zambia: The Times and Life of Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda

by Elias Munshya The Letter to Malawi One morning in 1972, that is at least ten years in power, first … More

There are no two sides to the electoral violence in Lusaka and beyond

By Elias Munshya Those who abuse power usually shift blame to the victims. Even as it is biting off your … More

MUNSHYA v. THE COUNCIL OF ZIALE

On Costs.

Zambian Kalindula and Traditional Music: My Top 15 Songs

Zambian Kalindula and Traditional Music: My Top 15 Songs By Elias Munshya I will highlight these top 15 songs in … More

Matomola Likwanya Is A Political Prisoner and Must be Freed

by Elias Munshya When President Lungu paraded the police command at a press conference informing us that the police is … More

The Freedom Struggle and the Aftermath: Sophena Chisembele’s book on the personal story of Sylvester Mwamba Chisembele

By Elias Munshya In the book Zambia: The freedom struggle and the aftermath, Mrs Sophena Chisembele chronicles the personal story … More

“Muka Muchona” and “Na Musonda”: Women, chastity and faithfulness in Kalindula music

By Elias Munshya In Muka Muchona, legendary Zambian singer and musician Peter Tsotsi Juma paints a picture of a woman … More

APOLOGY: TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

By Elias Munshya I wish to apologize to everyone who was offended when I posted that President Magufuli had died … More

Towards the Philosophy of Interpreting the Zambian Constitution – Given the grade 12 requirement

By Elias Munshya The state has access to all the resources one could ever think of when drafting a constitution. … More

A Tribute to Bernard Mulopo Mulubwa of Milenge (1914 to 2016)

By Elias Munshya Bernard Mulopo Mulubwa was born on May 13, 1914. He died on March 12, 2016. Friday, March … More

DANNY PULE AND OTHERS V. ATTORNEY GENERAL CASE (DOWNLOAD)

Please download the Danny Pule case below: Thank you: Elias Munshya

THE POLICE RAID ON SHIBUYUNJI

By Elias Munshya With his mouth dripping with poisoned mustard, it should not have taken rocket science to know that … More

Marriage Tentativity Under Zambian Customary Practices: A Folk-Music Methodology

By Elias Munshya Customary marriages in Zambia are by their nature “tentative”. While the civil marriages give the impression of … More

Redeeming Zambian Customary Laws: What we can do about making marriage and divorce laws fairer

By Elias Munshya Last week, Zambia’s Justice Minister offered quite staggering statistics of divorces in Zambia. He said that in … More

Ukufutikila: Towards A Pentecostal Theology Of Healing During Zambia’s COVID-19 Pandemic

By Elias Munshya In the early years of the Pentecostal movement – particularly the one under the US-styled prosperity preachers’ … More

How A Revivalist And Renewal Zambian Faith Became A Faith Of Chief Bishops And Anointed Water

By Elias Munshya The rise of Pentecostalism in Zambia marked a massive shift in the religious landscape of the country. … More

MADE IN NYASALAND: THE ENDURING INFLUENCE OF MALAWIAN DIASPORA IN ZAMBIA

By ELIAS MUNSHYA Of Zambia’s 8 ( or 9) neighbors, no country has had more economic, religious, educational, political, and … More

Police Shootings and the Failing Presidency of Edgar Chagwa Lungu

By Elias Munshya On December 23, 2020, the nation was awakened to the horror of two murders that had just … More

HOW MANY ZAMBIANS ARE NRC CRIMINALS? wELL THE ANSWER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU

If Zambia prosecuted all NRC offences nearly the whole country will be in jail from the President to everyone of … More

Nevers Mumba’s Week from Hell and the Negligence of the PF Government

By Elias Munshya Isn’t it the case? That the Patriotic Front government tries to insist that President Lungu should be … More

ZAMBIA – THANK YOU!

The Electoral Confusion of Zambia: What Zambia’s Elections Body Must Do To Inspire Confidence

By Elias Munshya The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) has a very fancy and lofty leader in Justice Esau Chulu. … More

The Patriotic Front Government Should Stop Abusing Police Powers In Zambia

By Elias Munshya Power is easy to abuse. There is this sense endemic in those who wield guns and bombs … More

The Failure of the Parastatal Economic Model in Zambia

by Elias Munshya There is definitely a series of stories that can be told about President Frederick Chiluba’s privatisation program. … More

Stop the Privatization Talk, It Will Not Help the Zambian Economy

By Elias Munshya When you are broke as a country, it matters where you are directing your energies and efforts. … More

Christianity, Campaigns, and the Politics of God’s Choice

by Elias Munshya Never have we, and neither should we, object to the Honourable Minister of Religious Affairs Rev. Godfridah … More

WHEN THE COMMANDER GOES ROGUE: PRESIDENT LUNGU, ACC, AND THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION

By Elias Munshya President Lungu’s trip to the Copperbelt this last weekend did not just end up spreading COVID-19 to … More

The Cabbage Who Became A Piece Of Steak: Remembering Levy Patrick Mwanawasa

By Elias Munshya President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa (Zambian President from 2002 to 2008) was a controversial figure. Without a doubt, … More

PRESIDENT EDGAR LUNGU MUST STOP UKUSEYA to control the spread of covid-19 to zambia’s villages

by Elias Munshya When I say that His Excellency, the President of our Republic, is spreading the COVID-19 virus, I … More

Dr. Chisela Chileshe Should Resign or Be Fired

By Elias Munshya This past weekend His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Zambia Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu, flew … More

President Lazarus Chakwera And the Opportunities of A Pentecostal Political Theology

By Elias Munshya Malawian Pentecostals must be very proud of themselves. They have managed to get one of them to … More

Insults under zambian law – should the police arrest people for insulting others? (video)

Why Does the PF Want to Take Over CEC?

By Elias Munshya Our concern for the viability of our country is what drives us. It is never to be … More

Towards A Post-Africanist Renewal

By Elias Munshya Pan-Africanism has serious deficits, as a philosophy for the African. It has so far failed to help … More

Blood in Isoka: The continuing failure of Edgar Lungu’s leadership

By Elias Munshya Honourable Dora Siliya, the minister of information and broadcasting, issued a statement on May 17, 2020, condemning … More

COVID-19 and the Performances for the Camera In Zambia

By Elias Munshya The two government ministers, based on their performance when announcing the COVID-19 deaths, seem to have acted … More

Writing to Pass: My Dissertation Advice to Law Students

By Elias Munshya Occasionally, law students from Zambian law schools do contact me for some “dissertation ideas”. Some find our … More

The Nakachinda Parliamentary Committee Report on Bill 10

Disclaimer: Elias Munshya and Munshya Law are not responsible for any inaccuracies of this draft report. This is a draft … More

Mwaculeni: Why Bill 10 should rest in eternal peace

By Elias Munshya When Justice Minister Given Lubinda announced efforts to amend the Constitution of Zambia, he did it with … More

Zambia is a Christian Nation and a Multi-Religious Nation

By Elias Munshya The commotion over Bill 10’s proposal to Christianise the Zambian constitution is in my opinion, wholly unnecessary … More

Download the LAZ Bill 10 Petition in the Constitutional Court – Here

Click Here for the Petition – The Law Association of Zambia Bill 10 Petition

Zambian Pentecostal Leaders Must Speak Up Against Bill 10: Here is Why

The Constitution of Zambia (Amendment) Bill, 2019 (Bill 10) appears to have some footprints of the Pentecostal mindset in so … More

Some Subtle Proposed Changes that Make Bill 10 Even More Bizarre

By Elias Munshya Bill 10 is obviously a disaster. You cannot bring together hundreds of people for 14 days and … More

Drop Bill 10: Why Zambians are taking the “Constitution of Zambia Amendment Bill” personally

By Elias Munshya Obliterating the Personal? One of the first things that get destroyed when a dictatorship is trying to … More

Zambia’s Bill 10: Why aren’t Pentecostal church leaders speaking up?

By Elias Munshya Bill 10 proposes to abolish the multi-religious character of the Republic of Zambia that is enshrined in … More

The Johannesburg High Court’s KCM Ruling Embarrasses The Zambian Judiciary and All of Us

By Elias Munshya Zambia has excellent legal minds. It has exceptional jurists. However, there is something fundamentally problematic within the … More

Why I am Supporting Zambia’s Yellow Card Protest of July 20, 2019

By Elias Munshya There comes a time in the life of a nation that citizens of all walks of life, … More

The 2019 Constitution of Zambia Amendment Bill Should be Withdrawn: Here is why

By Elias Munshya, LLM, MBA, M.DIV. The Constitution of Zambia (Amendment) Bill, 2019 has been published as Bill 10. Very … More

You Can Download The Constitution of Zambia Amendment Bill, 2019 Here

We have a copy of the Constitution-Amendment-BILL, courtesy of https://acazambia.org. Here it is: Constitution-Amendment-BILL

MUNSHYA LAW: What our law firm can do for Zambians wishing to emigrate to Canada

by Elias Munshya, LLM, MBA, M.DIV. Munshya Law (www.munshyalaw.com), is a Canadian immigration law firm based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. … More

Why I Remain Optimistic About Zambia’s Future

By Elias Munshya, LLM, MBA, MDIV. Amid a barrage of attack on our democratic institutions, it is crucial that we … More

A Senate of Betrayal: Of Doctorates and Good Governance

By Elias Munshya, LLM, MBA, MDIV. The Senate of the University of Zambia has, in its wisdom, or most appropriately, … More

The Mafia in Charge: Is there collusion to undermine the rule of law in KCM’s liquidation?

By Elias Munshya, LLM, MBA, M.DIV. It is strange that ZCCM-IH went ex-parte to the Lusaka High Court to apply … More

Hope for Aunty Dizzy: Zambia’s minister of finance needs immediate access to addiction treatment

By Elias Munshya, LLM, MBA, M.DIV. President Lungu knows or ought to know, that Honorable Margaret Mwanakatwe MP is struggling … More

“Impumba Mukowa”: Our analysis of GBM’s resignation from the UPND and his tribal ideology

By Elias Munshya, LLM, MBA, M.DIV. She who comes to tribalism must come with pure tribal hands. You cannot be … More

The Supreme Court of Zambia’s Chifire Contempt Ruling: Our View

By Elias Munshya, BA, MA, LLB, MDIV., MBA, LLM We doubt whether this Chifire contempt case will help restore faith … More

Who is right on the CBU medical degree between Dr. Mujajati’s HPCZ and Prof. Simukanga’s HEA?

By Elias Munshya, BA, MA, LLB, LLM, MBA, M.DIV. A discussion of this nature places a demand upon us to … More

Robes Without Jobs: Proposals to cure lawyer unemployment in Zambia

E. Munshya, LLM., MBA, MDIV The shortage of lawyers in Zambia is catastrophic. The country of 15 million people currently … More

The Law Association of Zambia’s Statement on President Lungu’s eSwatini Land Gift

This is the media statement issued by the Law Association of Zambia The Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) has followed … More

It Is Time to Revisit the Law Association of Zambia Act: Here is why

By Elias Munshya, LLM, MBA, MDIV. (of the Alberta Bar) In April 2018, Zambia Institute of Advanced Legal Education (ZIALE) … More

The Nunes Memo: laughing at the end of the empire?

President Trump has declassified the Nunes’ Memo. Please find it below. Download it read it and let us know what … More

Harry Kalaba Resigns from President Lungu’s Government

We reproduce below a statement from Hon Harry Kalaba. We got the statement from his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/honharrykalaba/posts/1960172744231785 I HAVE RESIGNED … More

On Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Legal Profession: My response to Jennifer Quito

By Elias Munshya, LLM, MBA, M.DIV. The Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) is now requiring that its licensed lawyers … More

On Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law: Why I am defending Magistrate Mwelwa of Livingstone

By Elias Munshya, LLM. MBA, MDIV. A lot has been said about this case. I will try to make it … More

I Wrote the Chief Justice of Zambia: Here is why

I wrote because I believe in Zambia. I wrote because those who claim to hold dear the rule … More

Mumba Yachi of Mokambo: Zambia’s lost citizens and what they can do about it

E. Munshya, LLM. MBA, M.DIV. We really do not know all the facts surrounding Mr. Mumba Yachi’s arrest. From the … More

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