Luckson Mulako Sikananu

Strategic Communications - Stakeholder Management- Public Engagement- Editorial

Netherlands

I’m a communications and events specialist with a strong record in helping organisations get their message right, reach the right audience, and cut through the noise in complex, often high-stakes environments.

My experience spans strategic content development, stakeholder engagement, and editorial project management, across sectors including sustainability, media, fintech, and international development.

I bring a pragmatic, audience-centred approach to communications — one that aligns brand purpose with impact, builds trust, and nurtures relationships that matter. Whether leading global events, advising on youth employment initiatives, or crafting crisis-era editorial, I deliver communications that are grounded, intentional, and results-focused.

Portfolio
RNW Media
08/20/2026
When the Fakes Borrow the Trust

How Zambia's 2026 election showed what happens to an information landscape when synthetic content becomes ordinary

Partners Guide Magazine, pending publication
Uncertainty in the Time of Cholera: Zambia's U-turn on Street Vending

The cholera outbreak that had hit some parts of Lusaka in 2018 forced policy makers to rethink government's policy on street vending, a move that later resulted in the practice being banned. While the move was considered a necessary step to mitigate the spread of the outbreak, policy inconsistencies, failure of implementation and the relationship between politics and street vending left more questions than answers. Picture Credit: Chellah Tukuta

Partners Guide Magazine
28/07/2018
Agriculture Investment in Zambia: land grabs or development opportunity?

At the height of the 2008 global economic recession, food security in rich and powerful countries became a great concern. And Africa, with rich and arable land, became a key region where large-scale agriculture investment could be ventured into. But what are the opportunities and/or downsides of these investments? This article focuses on Zambia's agriculture sector vis-a-vis land administration, and hence the question; Agriculture Investment in Zambia, land grabs or development opportunity?

Partners Guide Zambia
August, 2018
The troubling relationship between the rise in online betting and mobile money

The growth in mobile money services has created new opportunities for merchants to sell their products and services. One of these is the fast-growing sports betting sector which has taken a number of African countries by storm. What's further spurred the growth is rapid internet penetration.

Lusaka Star
11/12/2018
Zambia fights for recognition as the place where World War I really ended

As the world remembers the end of the First World War, Zambia is fighting to ensure that its role in the war is remembered. World leaders gathered in Paris on Nov. 11, Armistice Day, to honor the war's fallen soldiers. Zambia, however, wants to change the narrative and location of these commemorations.