Acie Lumumba is a political analyst, strategist, and the co-founder of Powerlist.Africa. He covers African politics with a particular focus on how the continent is led. He is the creator and anchor of The Lumumba Files
South Africa’s Constitutional Court has done something Ramaphosa never priced in: it has forced his presidency back through the same constitutional door that carried him into power. He arrived as the rule‑of‑law reformer after Zuma; now the rule book is being used as an instrument to reopen
The only honest frame for understanding the most scrutinised private citizen in Zimbabwe's post-Mugabe history.
HOW LAZARUS CHAKWERA BURNED MALAWI AND WHY PETER MUTHARIKA CANNOT SAY SO
In June 2020, Lazarus Chakwera inherited the easiest presidential landing in SADC. By 2025 he had handed Peter Mutharika a country with a worthless currency. The doctor is in the room. The Lombard Gang is still in the corridor.
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For the first time in this country's mining history, the chemical leaves the border in a different molecular form than it entered the truck.
4.1% inflation, $12 billion in forex, then World Bank 7.5–9.5% growth. One country finally escaping its own obituary. 9% Shows We’ve Been Measuring Zimbabwe Wrong
Zimbabwe Doesn't Have an Economy Problem. It Has a Measurement Problem.
And the technocrat beside him who made sure the ledgers matched the words.
The blueprint Zimbabwe just carried into Washington, and why Africa will rise or fall on whether we learn to hand each other the map.
On the eleventh of April, 2026, a man was fired. No press conference. No statement of thanks. One line in a government gazette: Fulton Mangwanya is no longer the Director-General of the Central Intelligence Organisation in Zimbabwe.
The default posture of an African finance ministry in 2026 is excuses. Cocoa prices fell. The rand shifted. The IMF renegotiated. The currency moved. Every quarter produces a new reason the targets will slip to Q3. The reasons are often real. The posture is the problem. Zimbabwe broke that posture
94 presidents extended their terms. 78% succeeded. Some built transformation. Some triggered coups. Zimbabwe is Number 39. Here is the data.