Author Archives: Field Ruwe

Hunt for Successor 39: Ivory-tower intellectuals

April 3, 2013 no comments

By Field Ruwe Justice Minister Sebastian Saizi Zulu had hoped for a good day. It had taken this most distinguished State Counsel and advocate of the Supreme Court of Zambia months to compile the repo...

Hunt for Successor 36: My idol has failed me

February 20, 2013 1 comment

By Field Ruwe Let me begin with Edgar Allan Poe’s words: “In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.” I am encouraged ...

Hunt for Successor 35: Zambian Journalists are cowards

February 16, 2013 1 comment

By Field Ruwe There are no media heroes in Zambia, no “Pulitzer” winners. There’s never been because Zambian journalists have been reduced to cowards, puppets, and copycats. Authoritarian ventriloqui...

Hunt for Successor 34: Leave our children alone

January 30, 2013 1 comment

By Field Ruwe The overbearing Wynter Kabimba is about to press the red button and blow up the future of our children. He is taking them to the primordial era and turning them into dinosaurs. That’s t...

Hunt for Successor 33: Our IQ is less than 70

January 21, 2013 5 comments

By Field Ruwe If you want to hide something from a Zambian put it in a book. Unless they are to be tested, Zambians don’t read. They don’t read at home, on the bus, or on the plane. They suffer from ...

Hunt for Successor 32: Shame on us!

January 10, 2013 1 comment

By Field Ruwe To the shouts of “New Year!” the skies erupted at midnight, car horns went off and fireworks shot up. We exited 2013 with pomp, mirth and music and entered the New Year in spectacular s...

Hunt for Successor 31: Stop the Sata Dynasty

January 2, 2013 2 comments

By Field Ruwe It is 2013. If this year the opposition does not find a way of organizing itself, we are stuck with Michael Sata for the rest of his political career. I can tell you now that the Sata D...

Hunt for Successor 28- Zambia, a nation of chained Form Fives

November 21, 2012 5 comments

By Field Ruwe We, Form Fives a.k.a. Grade 12s are a people chained, facing the lit walls in the darkness of our own country. On the walls we watch our fantasies and desires. We see ourselves with a l...