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
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France says no US pressure. Ramaphosa's spokesperson says otherwise. Ghana wins historic UN slavery resolution. Zimbabwe confirms 15 citizens killed fighting for Russia. The continent's political chessboard is moving fast.
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Three men. One fabricated association. A political science autopsy of how Zimbabwe misreads the relationship between party capital, private enterprise, and activist freelancing — and why it matters for 2030.
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The PF just elected a new leader. It does not matter. Hichilema has already absorbed three opposition parties, expanded parliament by 113 seats, and polls at 60%. This is coalition mathematics, not democracy.
He started as a carpenter at 17. Drove someone else's truck in South Africa. Built a fleet from one vehicle. The banks backed him. The courts proved his critics wrong. So why does Zimbabwe treat his success like a crime scene?
President of Zambia since August 2021. The man who restructured Zambia's $13 billion debt default, the first African sovereign to complete the G20 Common Framework process. Now he has done something no sitting African president has attempted at scale.
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Trump's war exposed. Mnangagwa's constitution advances. Congo's drone war escalates. The 11 power plays reshaping Africa today.
Ireland and Zimbabwe are deepening a 46-year development partnership at the exact moment EU sanctions have been dismantled and Sweden is pulling out. Minister Machakaire and Ambassador Gormley just signalled what comes next.
Zimbabwe’s budget assumed $60 oil. Brent is above $100. ZERA just hiked fuel prices twice in 14 days. What Treasury must do now.
Patrice Motsepe's AFCON Earthquake: How CAF Stripped Senegal of a Trophy They Won on the Pitch. CAF has done what no football body has done before: stripped a champion of a title won in extra time and handed it to the host nation by boardroom forfeit. Senegal is heading to CAS.
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Oil at $100 is the headline. Fertiliser at 45 percent above January prices is the crisis nobody is covering. One-third of the world's seaborne fertiliser trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz. Africa imports over 90 percent of what it uses. The maths is brutal.
Lesley Ndlovu just became CEO of AfrexInsure, Afreximbank's specialty insurance arm. A Zimbabwean replacing a Zimbabwean at the helm of a continental institution worth $40 billion in assets. The trade insurance revolution starts here.