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By Bruce Njovu In a game of chess, there are pieces with general powers and pieces with a more superior power. There are kings, Queens, Rooks, Bishops and Knights and the small guy, the Pawn. The one nobody is afraid to sacrifice for the greater good of the board kingdom. Think of yourself as the… Continue reading Life as a Game of Chess

I don't know about you, but I'm starting to feel like tumbleweed just moseying along with the breeze. It's already mid-May and so far I've abandoned more than half of my new year's resolutions. Of course no surprises there but what is surprising is how complicit I'm being about my decent into a state of… Continue reading Are You Lost? Your Purpose is Looking for You

Love is Strange... She slips into your life like a swift dagger. She mercilessly shreds your defenses! Unable to find your footing, you stagger, Only to fall in her arms and have her caress away your senses. She flatters you. Tends to wounds she caused. She says your name like she's teaching your ears how… Continue reading Love is Strange

Anyone that has ever sat through a moot can attest that it is a rite of passage in law school. To be able to endure the disorienting thickness of the heat, taste the saltiness on your lips whilst fending yourself from the burying punches from the bench, AND  be able to walk away with little… Continue reading An Afternoon with James: The Arena

I had a friend come over yesterday and we got into a discussion about someone she had met recently. She said he was fantastic. They'd been going round in circles for a while but he was worth it because he was a rare gem. I wondered about that. What's the yardstick we use to measure… Continue reading Rambles of a Disgruntled Bunny

 By Muleta Kapatiso Introductory Remarks Witchcraft and Christian spiritual practices are not easy to differentiate from one another as they both possess aspects which cannot be naturally proved but can only be believed to exist by those who feel they have had a non-natural experience or supernatural experience. In Zambia, witchcraft has been defined under… Continue reading Witchcraft, Christianity and the Law

By the Yearning Man Now that I think about it, I did meet you once. It was on one of those cold and windy afternoons in July, 11 years ago. I had just come from Dingo and was heading to class when I saw one of my favourite prefects coming down the opposite end of… Continue reading Missed Connection

So last year, not sure when exactly, I saw the "Black Panther" trailer on a friend's Face Book page. Impressive as it was, I couldn't help but think to myself-"Somebody just stole my friggin' idea! Are you kidding me?! Stole my idea and made it a gazillion and one times better! Great, back to the… Continue reading Thinkers Abyss

By Evan Livas Tembo We face many challenges in our lives. Sometimes it seems like the weight of the world is pressing down, trying to snuff us out. In the communities where we come from, we hear many negative things about the legal profession. Since Grade 8, I have been a legal and political aspirant. I… Continue reading An Evening with Evan

When people see me wearing a white shirt, they praise me for the nice clean and neat shirt that I am wearing. However, no one sees the water that was used to wash that shirt. Most likely the water is even thrown away and everybody does not want to use it because it is dirty.… Continue reading To the Lecturers