When Parties Become Personal Estates

2026-02-09 - 15:50

🇿🇲 EDITOR’S NOTE | When Parties Become Personal Estates Zambian politics has long struggled with a structural weakness that is rarely named plainly: many political parties are not institutions in the full democratic sense. They are personal vehicles, built around a founder’s charisma, sustained by loyalty networks, and held together less by ideology than by