I'm honoured to share that I've been selected for the esteemed, Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships 2023, a fully financed scholarship by the #UKForeign (FCDO), and the #UniversityofWarwick for a MSc in Global Central Banking and Financial regulation.
This is one of the more interesting things about Zambia. People become extremely sensitive around the word tribalism, even when the voting pattern is plainly tribal or ethnic.
In Kenya, we are much more willing to call it what it is. People are proud of where they come from, ethnicity influences politics, and voting often follows those identities. You can dislike that reality, but pretending it does not exist does not make it disappear.
Zambia’s “One Zambia, One Nation” identity makes this conversation more uncomfortable. But that discomfort also exposes a vulnerability: strong regional voting blocs still exist even when people do not want to describe them in ethnic terms.
Southern Province is the clearest example. For roughly 25 years, its presidential vote has been overwhelmingly anchored to one political tradition. That is tribal or regional voting behaviour. And strategically, given how little time Mundubile had to campaign, and the security risk, there was very little electoral logic in spending scarce time trying to move a vote that has barely moved for a generation. The rational play was to concentrate on genuinely contestable provinces.
Calling the pattern tribal does not create it. The voting record already does.
Over the years, I have developed the tendency to spend the cross over alone. Reflecting on the goals and outcomes of the ending year, and setting out the goals for the New Year. The outside doesn't faze me, the fireworks doesn't work fire for me #HappyNewYear #2025
2024 Commonwealth University of Pretoria Scholarship
Country: South Africa🇿🇦
(i) The University of Pretoria located in South Africa is inviting applications for 2024 Commonwealth Scholarship.
(ii) The Scholarship is available to students from all countries of the world seeking to earn a postgraduate degree
(iii) The scholarship provides full tuition coverage, living stipends of $16,220 per year, and accommodation for the winners.
(iv) The application deadline is September 11, 2024
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Rational expectations are an economist version of " You can fool all the people some of the time,and some of the people all of the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time" ~Mervyn King- The end of Alchemy.
What a crazy week, kinda like thriller to "Jack of all trades, master of "everything "", 😅. If it was up to me, I'll would be in Bali listening to Kygo, Chainsmokers, Gryffin, Robin Schulz, Alesso, Martin Garrix etc