"A costly spectacle." "A circus." "A charade." This is how some detractors in the Zambian media have described the Zambian National Constitutional Conference (NCC), the body charged with the important task of rewriting the Zambian Constitution. The body's website describes the NCC as a "unique Constitution-making process that seeks to...

In May 2009, news broke of what has been described as one of the biggest corruption scandals in the history of Zambia: a number of officials within the Ministry of Health allegedly stole millions of dollars from the health sector over the course of 14 months. What makes the scandal...

I remember the first time I heard a Zambian person lament that life was better under British colonial rule. I had just arrived in Zambia to complete a year-long human rights fellowship and was facilitating a lesson on human rights law for community educators. As I began to discuss the...