Hunt for Successor 17: PF in a Venetian Mask By Field Ruwe
The PF is another impostor of democracy. It is using egalitarianism as a Venetian mask to hide its agenda of an autocratic nation in which the head of state has control over all…
Hunt for Successor 16 – Face-to Face with the Cobra – by Field Ruwe
It’s been six months since I set off on a perilous quest to find the Holy Grail. A grail in this milieu is a nimble personality much sought after to succeed King Cobra…
Hunt for Successor 15 – African intellectuals should be jailed – By Field Ruwe
Africa, the lowliest of the continents is still nocturnal. It is in this disposition that it emerges a superpower, greater than the United States, Britain, and China combined. In the night, when the…
Lords Of Poverty
Field, a Zambian national based in the U.S is on his flight to Boston from Los Angeles. Beside him is seated an in sensitive, greed infested individual who seems to think narrowly but…
Hunt for Successor 14: Youth Day 2021 By Field Ruwe
MARCH 12, 2021.8 A.M: Words on the calm banner ring out bright and sharp “They said we couldn’t do it,” their cadence meld into lines of optimism. In the speckled light of the…
Hunt for Successor 13: Zambians and the Inertia Disease
By Field Ruwe So, the “Zambian Intellectuals are Lazy” article went viral underthe adulterated title “You Lazy (Intellectual) African Scum” and hit all four corners of the world. In Zambia,I touched raw nerves…
Hunt for Successor: 11 Don’t take after your Father – A Sequel to “Zambian Intellectuals are Lazy”
By Field Ruwe I told my son not to take after me; break tradition chains, remove old edicts, and create new rituals. Take after Mandela, Gates, Jobs, or Einstein. Take after someone who…
Hunt for Successor 10: Fire George Chellah!
By Field Ruwe President Sata must fire his special assistant for press and public relations George Chellah for committing one of journalism’s deadliest sins—drawing from an unreliable source. Wikipedia is not a credible…
Hunt for Successor 9: Wanted: Man called Intrepid
By Field Ruwe Last night I had a vicarious conversation with Prisoner 46664. He goes by his clan name Madiba. He is the man celestial species call “Intrepid,” the ethical guide I need…
Hunt for Successor 8: Zambian Intellectuals are Lazy
By Field Ruwe They call the Third World the lazy man’s purview; the sluggishly slothful and languorous prefecture. In this realm people are sleepy, dreamy, torpid, lethargic, and therefore indigent—totally penniless, needy, destitute,…
Hunting for Successor Part 7: King Cobra and the People’s Speech By Field Ruwe
By Field Ruwe It was a few weeks after the confetti had settled. People watched as the president-elect arrived at parliament building accompanied by his wife. The drive was as civil as that…
Hunt for Successor 6:Purging Fred M’membe’s Contempt By Field Ruwe
Fred M’membe After the swearing ceremony of September 20,King Cobra jumped in the royal limo and was driven to State House. Along the way he beamed indiscriminately as he caught a glimpse of…
Hunting for Successor Part 5: Stand up and be counted
By Field Ruwe My articles are a quest—not for today but for tomorrow. Today our democratically elected president Michael Chilufya Sata holds the promise for a better Zambia. He’s mentally unpacking the crate…
Hunt for Successor Part IV: We, the Meek People
By Field Ruwe “A lot of West Africans I’ve encountered seem rude, aggressive, and downright arrogant,” said a Caucasian friend. “They are not like you Zambians. You’re courteous and gracious.” I admonished him…
Last of the Venerable Martyrs: Hunt for a Successor Part III Young Turks of Yesteryear
By Field Ruwe The Swazi princess pulled me by the side and asked me to sign. I was adamant. “You mean you don’t want change?” she asked. I could see him, his ferret…
Last of the Venerable Martyrs: Hunt for a Successor, Part II by Field Ruwe
By Field Ruwe My last article, Hunt for a successor, Part I, was “hijacked” by two non de plume bloggers, “PandaMushinsoWa Ngona” and “Flaw.” They engaged in a battle over VJ. Like the…
Last of the Venerable Martyrs: Hunt for a Successor by Field Ruwe
With his parted hair and an alluring grin, he won a legion of fans. But at 72, years have made their mark on the man we fondly call VJ – the Master Dribbler….
