We Stopped Believing We Were Worth Defending
By Andrew Field Last year ‘radical’ Islam, the religion of peace, killed more people in the dry middle of Africa than anywhere else on Earth. The Global Terrorism Index published…
Messaging by Machete: The Death Cult Feeding on Cabo Delgado
By Andrew Field Mozambique is beginning to resemble a managed emergency rather than a counter-insurgency. The distinction matters because counter-insurgencies are supposed to end. Managed emergencies become permanent systems. They…
The Constitution as Instrument: The Warning the Rhodesians Tried to Give.
Andrew Field | South of the African Equator | April 2026 Bertrand Russell, writing with characteristic precision about the dangers of Marxist political philosophy, once identified what he considered its…
The Illusion of Stability: Why the ZiG Is Not What It Seems
By Andrew Field Zimbabwe’s currency looks calm on the surface, but beneath it, the currents of mistrust run deep. There is a tendency within government to treat the apparent stability…
The Mirage of Muzarabani: The Distance Between Discovery and Delivery
By Andrew Field The Muzarabani gas discovery is being presented to Zimbabweans as a moment of arrival, a geological vindication that the country sits atop untapped energy wealth capable of…
Copper’s Double Edge: Zambia’s Sovereignty and Its Dependencies
By Andrew Field Zambia is once again being carried forward on the familiar promise that copper will lead the way in funding development. It’s a resource that will anchor sovereignty…
Zimbabwe’s Lithium Paradox: How an Export Ban Strengthened Foreign Control
By Andrew Field Lithium was once an afterthought; now it is the mineral that exposes Zimbabwe’s paradox of sovereignty and dependency. George Nolan’s discovery at Bikita in the early 1950s…
From Vichy to Westminster: The Danger of Cowardice in Government
By Andrew Field The Britain of Keir Starmer increasingly resembles a nation managed not by statesmen but by enemy collaborators with public opinion, accountants of caution who mistake cowardice for…
The Seven Year Itch: Parliament, Power and the Road to 2030
By Andrew Field Zimbabwe is once again in the midst of constitutional surgery. Cabinet has approved a package of amendments that would alter the way executive power is acquired and…
Epstein Affair: From Predator to Political Myth
By Andrew Field The Jeffrey Epstein affair has really become a theatre of excess, marked by speculation, seldom certainty, but much moral posturing in excess measure. It is no longer…