by The Kanisa Desk | Oct 5, 2026 | Profiles
A cleaner’s profile does one job: it tells a stranger, before they have ever met, why they should trust her with their home. The trouble is that most profiles – a line in a WhatsApp status, a note pinned to a shop board, a name handed round a compound...
by The Kanisa Desk | Sep 15, 2026 | Intellectual
Every plan to monetise a tradition runs into the same wall: some of what makes it valuable is precisely what cannot be sold. The Makishi masquerade grew inside mukanda, the initiation that turns Luvale, Chokwe, Luchazi and Mbunda boys into men, and Likumbi Lya Mize at...
by The Kanisa Desk | Jun 23, 2026 | Intellectual
A flagship park is not declared; it is proven over years by signals that are easy to state and hard to fake. Kafue has the raw material to become a globally recognised conservation destination — the scale, the biodiversity, the management structure — but scale cuts...
by The Kanisa Desk | Jun 20, 2026 | Economics
Every conservation success carries a distribution question inside it: who gains, who is asked to give something up, and who decides. Kafue’s repositioning is being told as a story of recovery, and on the evidence it largely is. But growth in a protected area is...
by The Kanisa Desk | Feb 2, 2026 | Intellectual
Cities do not become memory capitals by accident, and they do not stay that way by anniversary speeches. Lusaka holds a genuine claim to be one of Africa’s major cities of liberation memory, earned during its decades as the regional base of the freedom struggle....