25 Notable alumni of
University of Zambia
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The University of Zambia is 1982nd in the world, 45th in Africa, and 1st in Zambia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from the University of Zambia sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Emmerson Mnangagwa
- Enrolled in the University of Zambia
- 1973-1974 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is a Zimbabwean politician who is serving as a President of Zimbabwe since 24 November 2017. A member of ZANU–PF and a longtime ally of former President Robert Mugabe, he held a series of cabinet portfolios and was Mugabe's Vice-President until November 2017, when he was dismissed before coming to power in a coup d'état. He secured his first full term as president in the disputed 2018 general election. Mnangagwa was re-elected in August 2023 general elections with 52.6% of the vote.
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Edgar Lungu
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Edgar Chagwa Lungu is a Zambian politician who served as the sixth president of Zambia from 26 January 2015 to 24 August 2021. Under President Michael Sata, Lungu served as Minister of Justice and Minister of Defence. Following Sata's death in October 2014, Lungu was adopted as the candidate of the Patriotic Front in a Convention of the Patriotic Front in Kabwe, for the January 2015 presidential by-election, which was to determine who would serve out the remainder of Sata's term. In the election, he narrowly defeated opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema and took office on 25 January 2015.
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Hakainde Hichilema
- Occupations
- politicianinternational forum participanteconomist
- Biography
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Hakainde Hichilema is a Zambian businessman, farmer, and politician who is the seventh and current president of Zambia since 24 August 2021. After having contested five previous elections in 2006, 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2016, he won the 2021 presidential election with 59.02% of the vote. He has led the United Party for National Development since 2006 following the death of the party founder Anderson Mazoka.
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Levy Mwanawasa
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Levy Patrick Mwanawasa was the third president of Zambia. He served as president from January 2002 until his death in August 2008. Mwanawasa is credited with having initiated a campaign to rid the corruption situation in Zambia during his term. Prior to Mwanawasa's election, he served as the fourth vice-president of Zambia from November 1991 to July 1994, whilst an elected Member of Parliament of Chifubu Constituency.
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Ruhakana Rugunda
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianphysician
- Biography
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Ruhakana Rugunda is a Ugandan physician and politician who was Prime Minister of Uganda from 2014 to 2021. He held a long series of cabinet posts under President Yoweri Museveni beginning in 1986. He served as Uganda's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1996, and Minister of Internal Affairs from 2003 to 2009. Subsequently, he was Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2009 to 2011 and Minister of Health from 2013 to 2014.
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Inonge Wina
- Occupations
- sociologistpolitician
- Biography
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Inonge Mutukwa Wina is a Zambian politician who served as the 13th vice-president of Zambia from 2015 to 2021. She was the first woman to hold the position, which made her the highest ranking woman in the history of the Zambian government.
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Michael Burawoy
- Occupations
- sociologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Michael Burawoy is a sociologist working within Marxist social theory, best known as the leading proponent of public sociology and the author of Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism—a study on the sociology of industry that has been translated into a number of languages.
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Alimuddin Zumla
- Occupations
- pathologistphysician
- Biography
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Sir Alimuddin Zumla,, FRCP, FRCPath, FRSB is a British-Zambian professor of infectious diseases and international health at University College London Medical School. He specialises in infectious and tropical diseases, clinical immunology, and internal medicine, with a special interest in HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections (including COVID-19 and Tuberculosis), and diseases of poverty. He is known for his leadership of infectious/tropical diseases research and capacity development activities. He was awarded a Knighthood in the 2017 Queens Birthday Honours list for services to public health and protection from infectious disease. In 2012, he was awarded Zambia's highest civilian honour, the Order of the Grand Commander of Distinguished services - First Division. In 2023, for the sixth consecutive year, Zumla was recognised by Clarivate Analytics, Web of Science as one of the world's top 1% most cited researchers. In 2021 Sir Zumla was elected as Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences.
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Nahas Angula
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nahas Gideon Angula is a Namibian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of Namibia from 21 March 2005 to 4 December 2012. He was succeeded by Hage Geingob in a cabinet reshuffle after the 2012 SWAPO Party congress. He subsequently served as Minister of Defence from 2012 to 2015.
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George Chaponda
- Years
- 1942-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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George T. Chaponda is a Malawian career diplomat and politician who served as Malawi's Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development from 2016 to 2017. He is a founding member of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and is a DPP Member of Parliament from Mulanje district in southern Malawi.
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Margaret Mwanakatwe
- Occupations
- accountantbankerpolitician
- Biography
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Margaret Mhango Mwanakatwe is a Zambian politician who was the Minister of Finance from 14 February 2018 to 14 July 2019. She worked previously as a businesswoman, accountant, and bank executive. She was the director for business development in Anglophone Africa at the United Bank for Africa at the bank's headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria. In this role, she supervised business development in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Before that, she served as the managing director and chief executive officer of the United Bank for Africa Uganda Limited from March 2009 until May 2011.
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Irene Mambilima
- Occupations
- judgepolitician
- Biography
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Irene Chirwa Mambilima was the Chief Justice of Zambia from 2015 until her death in 2021. She also served as Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Zambia and presided over the 2006 and 2011 general elections and the January 2015 presidential by-election. She was part of several election observer missions including in Liberia, Kenya, Mozambique, and Seychelles. Her other international assignments included serving as Sessional Judge of the Supreme Court of The Gambia in 2003. Mambilima sat on the International Board of the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) as a Director of the Africa Region. She was also a member of several professional associations including the Zambia Association of Women Judges, the Editorial Board Council of Law Reporting, the Child Fund (Zambia), Women in Law Southern Africa, and the Council of the Institution of Advanced Legal Education.
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Racheal Kundananji
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Racheal Kundananji is a Zambian professional footballer who plays as a forward for National Women's Soccer League club Bay FC and the Zambia women's national team.
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George Kunda
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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George Kunda was a Zambian lawyer and politician who was the 11th vice-president of Zambia from 2008 to 2011. He served under President Rupiah Banda until their party's loss to Michael Sata's party.
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Chibamba Kanyama
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Chibamba Kanyama is a Zambian business leader and writer, specialising in communication strategy and economics.
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Patrick Matibini
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- politicianjudge
- Biography
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Patrick Matibini is a Zambian politician, lawyer and former judge. He has been Speaker of the National Assembly from 6 October 2011 until 3 September 2021.
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Brenda Muntemba
- Years
- 1970-2019 (aged 49)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Brenda Muntemba was a Zambian diplomat who was serving as the Zambian High Commissioner to Kenya at the time of her death. She had also served as the Commissioner of Police, Southern Province and Chief Program Officer at UNESCO in Zambia. She was a school teacher between 1993 and 1995 at Leopards Hill High School and was also a part-time radio presenter for Radio Phoenix and Christian Voice. Muntemba authored and published four motivational books, under Langmead and Baker; OFF DUTY (2011) In Retrospect (2013), Secrets Unveiled (2015) and The Architect (2018).
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Kevin Shillington
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Kevin Shillington is a teacher and a freelance historian based in Dorset, England, United Kingdom.
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Mulenga Kapwepwe
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Mulenga Mpundu Kapwepwe is a distinguished Zambian author and social activist. Kapwepwe has garnered widespread recognition for her remarkable contributions in the field of women's history, having co-founded the Zambian Women's History Museum.
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Frank Chipasula
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Frank Mkalawile Chipasula is a Malawian writer, editor and university professor, "easily one of the best of the known writers in the discourse of Malawian letters".
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Monica Musonda
- Occupations
- entrepreneurlawyer
- Biography
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Monica Katebe Musonda is a Zambian businesswoman, lawyer and entrepreneur, who resigned a well-paying job as a corporate attorney to start and then lead a Zambian-based food-processing company, Java Foods Limited, where she is the chief executive officer.
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Dickson Jere
- Occupations
- writerlawyer
- Biography
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Dickson Jere is a Zambian lawyer, journalist, published author and renowned political analyst specializing on African affairs. He previously served as senior advisor and spokesman of Zambia's Fourth President Rupiah Bwezani Banda. He has also sat on a number of government committees dealing with the economic sector of the country. He sits on the boards of various companies.
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N’gandu Peter Magande
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Ng'andu Peter Magande, was a Zambian politician and economist. He served as the Minister of Finance and National Planning of the Republic of Zambia from 2003 to 2008. He also served as a Member of Parliament for Chilanga Constituency from 2006 until 2010 and the Chairman of the MMD Party Committee on Economy and Finance.
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Kenneth Mubu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kenneth Mubu was a South African politician and a Member of Parliament with the Democratic Alliance, and the Shadow Minister of Public Works.
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Margaret Sekaggya
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- Biography
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Margaret Sekaggya is a Ugandan lawyer and human rights activist. She was born in Kampala 23 October 1949. In 1970, she began studying at Makerere University pursuing a bachelor of laws degree. In 1990, she attained a master of laws degree from the University of Zambia. She has worked with the governments of Uganda, Zambia, and the United Nations. From 1996 to 2009, she as the chairperson for the Uganda Human Rights Commission. In 1995, she had been appointed a judge of the High Court of Uganda. During this time, she was selected to oversee the Uganda Interim Electoral Commission. She also participated in the promulgation of the 4th Constitution of Uganda in 1995. During much of the 80s, she was based at the United Nations Institute for Namibia, readying Namibia's institutions for transition into independence. From 1978 to 1982, she was a magistrate based in Lusaka. From 2008 to 2014, Sekaggya was the United Nations special rapporteur for human rights defenders.
