Christopher Harris Chirwa, a senior researcher and experienced journalist who worked for Zambia Information Services and Zambia Daily Mail newspaper, was a book publisher for over two decades before becoming a media and management consultant. He has extensive experience in research and in consulting for Zambia-based and international organizations.

His published works include: “Ngoni migration to Malawi” and “The Ngoni after Zwangendaba’s death” and “Barotse diasporas in Zambia and Malawi in pre-colonial times” in The Road to Democracy in South Africa Vol 8 – South African Diaspora in southern and eastern Africa in Precolonial times, Part 1 (Pretoria South Africa Democracy Trust and Texas University Press 2020); Decriminalisation of Laws Limiting Freedom of Expression in Africa: Zambia Country Report Centre for Human Rights (University of Pretoria, GIZ, Open Society Foundation, 2014); “Zambia and developments in the South African liberation struggle 1960-1994” in The Road to Democracy in South Africa Vol 5 (Pretoria: South Africa Democracy Trust/University of South Africa Press 2013); On Air – Zambia, Public Broadcasting in Africa Series (Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa 2010) four chapters in Changing Public/Private Partnerships in the African Book Sector (Paris: Association for the Development of Education in Africa 2005); Community Media Initiatives in Zambia – Problems and Prospects (Southern Africa, Lusaka, Zambia: Panos, 2002); “Religious Freedom in the ‘Christian’ Nation of Zambia” in Freedom of Religion: A Precious Human Right edited by Jonneke M. M. Naber (Van Gorcum 2000); “The Electoral System in Zambia” and “The Role of the Media in Emerging Democracies” in Election Reporting Handbook edited by Oliver Kanene (Lusaka: Zambia Independent Media Association (ZIMA) 2000); Press Freedom in Zambia (Lusaka: Zambia Independent Media Association (ZIMA) 1997); Study on Textbook Provision and the Feasibility of Cooperation among SADC Countries, with K A Chali (Paris: UNESCO, 1993).

Christopher developed deeper appreciation of cycling, first as a sport and later as an alternative mode of transport, after a series of meetings and engaging conversations with a long-serving president of the Cycling Association of Zambia.