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A Senate of Betrayal: Of Doctorates and Good Governance

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Elias Munshya, MBA, LLM, MA, MDIV One comment

By Elias Munshya, LLM, MBA, MDIV. The Senate of the University of Zambia has, in its wisdom, or most appropriately, foolishness decided to confer upon President Edgar Lungu an honorary doctorate. Typically, universities around the world have a specific choice for an honorary degree. Universities usually grant the general “doctor of laws”. Surprisingly, even those without a faculty of law

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

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Elias Munshya, MBA, LLM, MA, MDIV 4 comments

By Elias Munshya, LLM, MBA, M.DIV. President Lungu knows or ought to know, that Honorable Margaret Mwanakatwe MP is struggling with an apparent illness requiring urgent treatment. However, I am wondering why despite this notorious fact, the president still maintains her at the ministry of finance. Is the president taking advantage of a woman’s illness for his political ends? As

God and Politics: An analysis of Niebuhr’s typologies in the Zambian context

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Elias Munshya, MBA, LLM, MA, MDIV Leave a comment

By Elias Munshya, LL.M., MBA, M.Div. On Sunday October 18, 2015 President Edgar Lungu did something that was quite consistent with the practices of many of his predecessors: associate the Zambian state with the Christian religion. From its founding to the present, Zambia has wrestled with the question of what should be the correct relationship between faith and politics in

ZAMTEL Kaloba: Politics of running parastatal companies in Zambia

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Elias Munshya, MBA, LLM, MA, MDIV 10 comments

Elias Munshya, LLM, M.Div., MBA To redeem our national pride and domestic prowess, we must face the truth. To quote our Lord Jesus Christ, we shall “know the truth and the truth shall set us free”. What we need in Zambia is a huge dose of truth. Truth is important for several reasons. First, truth helps us to make a

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From Kasonde to Kafwaya: Debunking the myth that “old people” rule Zambia

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Elias Munshya, MBA, LLM, MA, MDIV 3 comments

E. Munshya, LLB (Hons), M.Div. The honorable Dr. Joseph Kasonde was born in 1938, his youngest counterpart in the legislature, Hon. Dawson Kafwaya, was only born in 1984. Between these two years is a spectrum of the ages of the current members of the Zambian parliament. Perhaps the most dominant myth to grace our politics in Zambia, is this persistent

Chikwanda’s other bombshell conversation with Edgar Lungu

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Elias Munshya, MBA, LLM, MA, MDIV 5 comments

You’ve all read the wiretap story from The Post about Chikwanda having a conversation with The Post’s employee. I also wiretapped Chikwanda. This time he was talking to Acting President Edgar Lungu.

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