The Author
Kampamba
Shula
Economist. Author. Storyteller. Kampamba Shula writes at the intersection of African economics, mythology, and the human experience — bringing rigour and imagination to questions that matter.
His novel, Copper Coins and Curses, brings Zambia's copper economy to life through the people who live with its booms and busts.
Author Since
2019
The Novel
Copper Coins and Curses
A novel of Zambia's copper economy and the lives it shapes
Zambia's copper story is not just an economic narrative — it is a human one. Copper Coins and Curses turns a century of extraction and expectation, global demand and local consequence, into a story of ambition, inequality, opportunity, and resilience. Through its characters, the novel explores what commodity cycles feel like from the inside: the decisions about family, migration, survival, and hope that no copper price chart can show.
Media Appearances
In Conversation
Interview on Zambia's Fuel Prices
Apr 2026
City TV Interview with Kampamba Shula
Apr 2026
Gold Reserves: Giving the Bank of Zambia First Right of Refusal on Local Gold
Dec 2025
Zambia's Biggest Budget Risk: Climate Change & the Coming El Niño (2026/2027)
Sept 2025
Biz Week with Kampamba Shula
May 2023
State of the Economy
Feb 2023
Zambia's Imports and Exports — report by Joseph Kaputula
Sept 2016
What I'm Reading
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