South Africa’s University of Cape Town (UCT) has invited Zambian academic and prominent political commentator Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa as a keynote speaker for its Distinguished Speakers Programme (DSP) on the topic “Africa Day in the Age of Xenophobia: Another Perspective”.
South Africa recently witnessed attacks against foreign nationals, mainly from neighbouring African countries. As part of its Africa Week celebrations, UCT has organised a forum for the discussion of the subject.
The DSP is one of UCT’s premier speaker events and has previously hosted prominent and influential individuals such as South Africa’s former Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel. It is designed to host outstanding speakers who have exceptional stories, perspectives and experiences to share and serves as an important platform for the robust engagement and discussion of relevant issues and topics.
Africa’s top ranked university has this time invited Dr Sishuwa, one of Zambia’s leading public intellectuals, to be the keynote speaker at the event, slated for 22 May 2019, to be hosted by UCT’s Graduate School of Business.
Dr Sishuwa is a lecturer in political history at the University of Zambia. He is also widely regarded for his regular analysis of the contemporary political events in Zambia. His critical political commentaries have frequently placed him at loggerheads with Zambia’s successive governments and leading opposition figures. A graduate of the University of Zambia, Dr Sishuwa completed his master’s and doctoral studies at the University of Oxford, where he read history and politics as a Rhodes Scholar, before returning home to take up a teaching appointment at UNZA in 2015.
His research interests focus on the study of history, identity politics, elections, political parties, civil society and democratisation in Zambia. Dr Sishuwa is currently completing a political biography of Michael Sata that examines the importance of individual leaders in broader processes of political change.
Intellectual? UPND joke!
All the best Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa to reprieve the hogwash Zambian reputation in tatters marred by current mediocre leadership of Edigar Chagwa Lungu.
Go show them boyi, you representing us the REAL people.
Don’t be Zambian, be real Sishuwa. I can’t wait to see you at end of the presentation….
Sishuwa is a true intellectual. Congrats and all the best.
This is what Unza itself should also be doing. Organizing debates even on some of the most touchy issues of the day. Congratulations Bo minange.
I don’t know why @Jay Jay has doubts in me, but he has faith in Sishuwa.
When I read and see Sishuwa, I see a close friend of mine. We could be same age, but he looks like a guy to drink with.
That is the role of an academic. Independent thinker. Sad many academics in Zambia once join government have become mere followers and some cadres at the win of the political elite. I miss the late Ronald Penza. He had an independent mind even in govt and was feared by politicians.
I respect this man Sishuwa Sishuwa. He is a clear, intelligent thinker but above all he is a courageous man. Though I few times do not agree with him, I always read his analysis of our national affairs with interest.I wished we had just a dozen at UNZA like him.We need intellectual dialoque in Zambia unlike the so called NDF which leaves out great sons of Zambia like Sishuwa and settles for scatter brains and opportunists the likes of a ka certain man called Pastor Chanda.
So this guy ventures in Political history not Political future, right
SALISHUWA SALISHUWA IS NOT A ZAMBIAN, JUST LOOK AT HIS NAMES AND FACE , HE MUST BE FROM ARAB LEAGUE LIKE OMAN , THUS WHY HE IS NOT SURE NOT SURE BY NAMES PLEASE ALTHOUGH U ARE MASQURADING AS A ZAMBIAN REMOVE THOSE BEARDS, SOMEONE CAN BE BRUISED AT SUCKING
So proud of this man! He truly inspires and gives us hope for a better Zambia and Africa! He is really a good example for the younger (and older) Zambian generation to aspire and look up to. #SpeakingTruthToPower
A rare breed indeed – an original Zambian thinker. We need 10 more like him to transform Zambia from its current Dastardly State. Where the hell are the other men of and with Ideas. Ba Miyanda, where are you. You are the only other Zambian I know who knows how to tell it as it is.
Very good, keep it up Dr Sishuwa!
I particularly liked his recent article on trib.al upnd and its leader, sorry I meant its god not leader. Dr Sishuwa came across in the same high class mould as Steven Sackur of the BBC.
…….By the way, why didn’t they invite that political “commentator”, the disgraced trib.al at University of Pretoria, Dr Hansungule I think it was. Sorry, I have answered myself.
When you hear words such as renowned such and such just know that someone is trying to justify the unjustified… It’s possible to have an intellectual but not wise and have a warped mind…
Ati zambian intellectual! I have never come across a single one to date. If anyone has been through the zambian education system you can rest be assured that they will never become an intellectual. Zambian universities especially unza and cbu cant produce an intellectual. The so called intellectuals are illiterate commentators at the best. These people cant even introduce any new angle of perception to any situation.To proove my point ask this person to post his speach here. You will see that it will be one long directionless speach, wiyh no view points, loaded with big words here and there and some out of context quotes. The same way they teach them at unza. Ati zambiaaaan intelekcho! Rubbish.
Read the credentials of this man.Read his articles. I am sure, if nothing else prejudices your opinions, you will have some regard for Dr.Sishuwa.