The Long History Behind Kuomboka as Cultural Economy
Every year, when the Zambezi rises and the Barotse floodplain fills, the Lozi kingdom performs a decision that predates every tourism board and every marketing budget. The Litunga, the paramount ruler, moves from the flooded plain to higher ground, carried in the...
Private-Sector-Led: The IMF’s Growth Prescription of Copper, Energy and Textiles
Zambia has spent the better part of a decade learning that stability is not the same as growth. The hard arithmetic of debt restructuring, fiscal consolidation and inflation control has steadied the ship, but a steady ship that does not move is still stuck. The IMF's...
Reopen the Pipeline: Why the IMF Wants TAZAMA Open-Access Fuel Restored
Every litre of diesel that moves a Zambian truck, fires a backup generator or runs a mine pump arrives through a bottleneck. The country is landlocked, its fuel is imported, and for decades the choke point has been the TAZAMA pipeline running up from Dar es Salaam....
Water as Macro Policy: How Zambia Links WASH Investment to Inflation Control
Inflation is usually treated as a monetary problem to be solved with interest rates and exchange-rate management. In Zambia, the gap in that thinking is plumbing. A country where boreholes run dry in a bad season, where treatment plants ration supply, and where...
A Seat at the Table: Zambia Wins Vice-Chair Role at UNECA Finance Bureau
Influence in African finance is decided in committee rooms long before it shows up in headline deals, and the seats around those tables are not handed out by accident. Zambia has just secured one. At the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa's 58th session in...
This Month’s Issue
The Copper Reckoning
How Zambia turns three million tonnes into public value – or watches the boom leak away through a price and an ownership structure it does not set.
- 01 Copper and the Zambian State: Growth Versus Public Value
- 02 Konkola: Reading the Evidence, 2022-2026
- 03 The Needle Eye Review: Consumer Power in Zambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe
The Long History Behind Kuomboka as Cultural Economy
The long history behind Kuomboka: how the Lozi kingdom’s seasonal flood movement became one of Zambia’s most valuable cultural-economy assets.
Pool-House Reform Opens the Door to More Homeowners
On 5 March 2026 Minister Ramogapi added a tenant-purchase option and dropped plot-size and eligibility limits to Botswana’s pool-house scheme; 277 sold, 248 in
Private-Sector-Led: The IMF’s Growth Prescription of Copper, Energy and Textiles
The IMF’s growth prescription for Zambia: private-sector-led, inclusive growth via non-distortive industrial policy in copper, energy, agri-business and
Economics
Private-Sector-Led: The IMF’s Growth Prescription of Copper, Energy and Textiles
Zambia has spent the better part of a decade learning that stability is not the same as growth. The hard arithmetic of debt restructuring, fiscal consolidation and inflation control has steadied the ship, but a steady ship that does not move is still stuck. The IMF's...
Reopen the Pipeline: Why the IMF Wants TAZAMA Open-Access Fuel Restored
Every litre of diesel that moves a Zambian truck, fires a backup generator or runs a mine pump arrives through a bottleneck. The country is landlocked, its fuel is imported, and for decades the choke point has been the TAZAMA pipeline running up from Dar es Salaam....
Water as Macro Policy: How Zambia Links WASH Investment to Inflation Control
Inflation is usually treated as a monetary problem to be solved with interest rates and exchange-rate management. In Zambia, the gap in that thinking is plumbing. A country where boreholes run dry in a bad season, where treatment plants ration supply, and where...
Money
The Long History Behind Kuomboka as Cultural Economy
Every year, when the Zambezi rises and the Barotse floodplain fills, the Lozi kingdom performs a decision that predates every tourism board and every marketing budget. The Litunga, the paramount ruler, moves from the flooded plain to higher ground, carried in the...
Pool-House Reform Opens the Door to More Homeowners
Public housing schemes tend to fail at the same join: they build the houses but withhold the ownership. A tenant who can occupy a state-built home but never own it is a tenant forever, with no stake to maintain and no asset to build on. The reform of Botswana's...
Private-Sector-Led: The IMF’s Growth Prescription of Copper, Energy and Textiles
Zambia has spent the better part of a decade learning that stability is not the same as growth. The hard arithmetic of debt restructuring, fiscal consolidation and inflation control has steadied the ship, but a steady ship that does not move is still stuck. The IMF's...
Lifestyle
The Long History Behind Kuomboka as Cultural Economy
Every year, when the Zambezi rises and the Barotse floodplain fills, the Lozi kingdom performs a decision that predates every tourism board and every marketing budget. The Litunga, the paramount ruler, moves from the flooded plain to higher ground, carried in the...
Why the History of Tourism, Conservation Finance and Community Revenue Still Matters
For most of the last century, a Zambian national park was a line on a map financed by two purses: the treasury and the donor. Protection meant rangers on a government payroll, topped up by conservation grants from abroad, guarding wildlife against poachers and...
P4m Investment Breathes Life into UB Hotel and Conference Centre
A capital city positioning itself as a regional conference and business hub had been letting one of its best-located venues stand empty. The University of Botswana Hotel — 80 rooms with conference capacity in the heart of Gaborone — sat dormant while the city it...
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.
The 2030s Outlook for Domestic Tourism as Zambia’s Resilience Market
Two scenarios for Zambian domestic tourism by 2031, and the indicators, low-season demand, mid-market beds, transport cost, that reveal which path it is on.
A New Model: Why Zambia’s Debt-for-Energy Swap Could Reshape African Finance
Zambia’s debt-for-energy blueprint pairs an AfDB loan with US$275m over 15 years for grid resilience managed by GreenCo Power Services.
What Success Would Look Like in Liuwa Plain, Bangweulu and Community Conservation
What success looks like for Zambia’s community-linked wetlands by 2031: durable low-volume, high-impact destinations and the indicators to track.
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Zambia Moves You: Rebranding a Nation on the Back of an FDI Surge
Zambia’s ‘Zambia Moves You’ campaign launched 3 March 2026 as FDI rose from US$100m in 2023 to US$1.2bn in 2024 on debt restructuring and reforms.
Buy Zed: How the Indigenous Brands Push Aims to Lift Local Manufacturing
Zambia’s Indigenous Brands initiative and #BuyZed campaign aim to lift local manufacturing by building consumer demand for Zambian brands under the 24-hour
China-Africa Expos: When Headline Deal Values Outrun Signed Contracts
The Changsha expo closed with US$11.4 billion in signed projects and a further US$43 billion merely announced. The gap between the two numbers is the story.
Sports Revival Faces Gear Shortages
Schools have restarted sports but are short of equipment pending ministry approval – a small bottleneck that retailers and grant programmes are placed to clear.
Book Review: Pin The Location – Find, Convert & Keep Customers, Anywhere!
Author: Oscar Habeenzu Published: June 2023 Publisher: BehaviourReport.com Pages: 42 The Geography of Digital Customer Acquisition In an era where businesses obsess over the latest marketing automation tools and AI-driven personalization, Oscar Habeenzu's Pin The...
Digital Assets and Software: IP in Africa’s Digital Economy
The Digital Shift and the Rise of Intangible Business Assets Africa’s digital economy is expanding faster than any other region. Even traditional sectors are adopting digital platforms, apps, software systems and cloud-based operations. This transformation has created...