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Wellington Muzengeza
Wellington Muzengeza is a political risk analyst and urban strategist offering insight on urban planning, infrastructure, leadership succession and governance reform across Africa’s evolving post-liberation urban landscapes
The dangerous business of online jobs
As fraudulent overseas recruitment leads jobseekers into human trafficking and scam compounds, digital platforms and labour laws must evolve to trace and verify paid employment…
Wicknell Chivayo’s gifts: The price of political influence
Following reports of Wicknell Chivayo's death, an incisive analysis explores the political meaning of his conspicuous philanthropy and the complex web of patronage, public…
One river, two grids: Why Zambia and Zimbabwe need a shared power strategy
Despite operating separate power systems, Zambia and Zimbabwe share the Zambezi River. With expanding mining and industrial sectors, both nations urgently need a joint investment…
Starlink in Angola: Connectivity, control and the quiet politics of the sky
Starlink's entry into Angola highlights a critical test for governance and sovereignty in the 21st century. As regulators navigate licensing, the nation grapples with integrating…
Starlink in Africa: Breakthrough or backdoor? The continent’s digital future at a critical crossroads
What is presented as connectivity is, in truth, a recalibration of power, one that risks subordinating the continent’s political destiny to the algorithms and profit motives of…
Africa and our hollow unity
Budgets are rewritten in Washington and Brussels rather than in Harare, Accra or Nairobi
Africa’s new information war: The leaked files that expose a manufactured solidarity
A cache of leaked documents has exposed a sprawling foreign influence network operating across 34 African countries, revealing how Africa’s political space is being quietly…
Zimbabwe’s patronage web: How oligarchs captured the State
To sustain this order, ZANU-PF deploys propaganda with ruthless precision, deflecting blame onto sanctions and the opposition while sanctifying corruption as a patriotic duty
Are they furniture? Zimbabwe at 46 and Africa’s curse of permanent officials
Our leaders are not furniture. Furniture does not loot diamonds, mismanage treasuries or unleash militias. Furniture does not cling to power with brazen arrogance. But in…
Zimbabwe’s jarring, phantom reform
Presidential terms are to be extended to seven years, with Mnangagwa’s current tenure lengthened by two, while parliament and local government terms are similarly prolonged
US role in Africa delivers fake democracies
The lesson is clear: democracy in Washington’s playbook is not a universal value but a lever, invoked when nations resist economic control, claim authority over their own…
Zimbabwe’s diaspora as sovereignty in exile: A conversation with Jacob Ngarivhume
Wellington Muzengeza questions Zimbabwean opposition politician Jacob Ngarivhume
Kenya’s democratic mirage: Expulsion of Kagoro as continental symbol
The deportation of Brian Bright Kagoro in February 2026 is not the story of one man’s expulsion; it is the unmasking of Kenya’s democratic mirage
Why liberation movements fail
The implosion of parties such as the ANC and Zanu PF must serve as a cautionary tale for those that fought to liberate the continent
Western Cape secession is plain bigotry
The Western Cape’s secessionist rhetoric is not a provincial eccentricity but a continental red flag