List of Zambians

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This is a list of famous or notable Zambians, or people of Zambian descent, or people who have influenced Zambia listed in the following categories, and in no particular order:

Businesspeople[]

Politics[]

Politicians[]

Presidents[]

  • Kenneth David Kaunda – President – 1964–1991
  • Frederick Titus Jacob Chiluba – President – 1991–2001
  • Levy Patrick Mwanawasa – President – 2001–2008
  • Rupiah Bwezani Banda – President – 2008–2011
  • Michael Chilufya Sata – President – 2011–2014
  • Dr. Guy Scott – Acting President – October 2014 – January 2015
  • Edgar Lungu – President – 2015–Present (Attempted)

Vice presidents[]

  • Reuben Chitandika Kamanga – Vice President – 1964–1967
  • Simon Kapwepwe – Vice President – 1967–1970
  • Mainza Mathias Chona – Vice President – 1970–1973
    (post abolished thereafter and reintroduced in 1991)
  • Levy Patrick Mwanawasa – Vice President – 1991–1994
  • Godfrey Miyanda – Vice President – 1994–1997
  • Christon Tembo – Vice President – 1997–2001
  • Enoch P. Kavindele – Vice President – 2001–2003
  • Nevers Mumba – Vice President – 2003–2004
  • Lupando Katoloshi Mwape – Vice President – 2004–2006
  • Rupiah Bwezani Banda – Vice President – 2006–2008
  • George Kunda – Vice President – 2008–2011
  • Dr. Guy Scott – Vice President – 2011–2014
  • Inonge Wina Vice President – 2015–Present

Prime ministers[]

  • Mainza Chona – Prime Minister, 1973–1975, 1977–1978
  • Elijah Mudenda Prime Minister, 1975–1977
  • Daniel Lisulo – Prime Minister, 1978–1981
  • Nalumino Mundia – Prime Minister, 1981–1985
  • Kebby Musokotwane – Prime Minister, 1985–1989, Secretary-General, UNIP 1989–1991, Opposition President, 1992
  • Malimba Masheke Prime Minister, 1989–1991 (post abolished thereafter)

Others[]

Traditional rulers[]

Chieftainships are listed here. These articles cover all holders of the traditional titles; prominent individual holders may also have their own articles, usually in People in the History of Zambia below.
Main article: List of Mbunda Chiefs in Zambia

His Majesty GAWA KALONGA UNDI ( Chewa people of Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania)

The Chewa are a large group of people estimated at over 12 million and the Kingdom comes together during the annual traditional ceremony called the Kulamba ceremony.[1][citation needed]

Kulamba Traditional Ceremony

The Kulamba traditional ceremony is celebrated on the last Saturday in August each year at Mkaika, Katete, the seat of the Chewa Kingdom in Katete District of Zambia.

This is the time for the Kulamba, or paying homage. All the subordinate chiefs in the Kingdom which covers Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique come to Katete at Mkaika to pay their tributes and join in the celebrations with their people.[2][citation needed]

The ceremony, held after harvest in late August, is a way of bringing together different Chewa chiefs from the three countries to present their reports of grievances to paramount chief Kalonga Gawa Undi. The name Kalonga means the one who installs subordinate chiefs. Gawa is the one who gives out land and Undi means the one who protects the subordinates. His Majesty Kalonga Gawa Undi is the King of all the Chewa chiefdoms and takes care of all the installations of chiefs not only in Zambia but in Malawi and Mozambique as well.[3][citation needed]

The ceremony was banned by the colonial masters in 1934 but paramount chief Kalonga Gawa Undi Chivunga revived the ceremony in 1984. Since then it has been an annual event. On the day of the ceremony, the center of attraction is the main area where all the dignitaries are seated. The entrance of paramount chief Kalonga Gawa Undi into the arena signifies the start of the ceremony. Visitors from Zambia and Chewa's from neighboring Malawi and Mozambique are entertained to a variety of dances that are from three countries.[4][citation needed]

A variety of dances like Gule Wamukulu (Nyau), Gologolo, Makanja, Muganda, Chinamwali, Chimtali (the female dance) and many others are performed during the ceremony. The Nyau or popularly known as the Gule Wamukulu among locals, is the most celebrated dance among the Chewa people.

The Nyau dance (Gule Wamukulu) was officially recognized by UNESCO in 2006. Nyau dancers are referred to as Vilombo (animals) in Chewa, believed to emanate from dead spirits. There are a lot of Nyau dances at any ceremony. The type of the dance depends to a larger extent on the nature of the occasion. More than 30 different Nyau dances are performed at a single festival with each dancer adorning a different mask in an array of colors.[5][citation needed]

Some of the Nyau masks are a reflection of human behavior in true life. The people can tell the type of Nyau entertaining them through its dress or mask. Some Nyau are frightening while others are fun.

Also part of the Kulamba ceremony is an annual initiation ceremony for the young girls who have come of age. The ?anamwali? or young girls have been in confinement where they have spent time being taught skills and responsibilities of womanhood.

The Kulamba ceremony is proving to be a big annual event, bringing together chiefs from 137 chiefdoms in Malawi, 33 in Mozambique and 42 in Zambia. The significance of this is its ability to bring Chewa under different chiefdoms and countries to Mkaika, capital of the Chewa and palace of the Chwa King, His Majesty Kalonga Gawa Undi, to celebrate these festivals together regardless of today?s political boundaries.[6][citation needed]

Other notable traditional leaders include:

Religious figures[]

Sports[]

Footballers[]

Athletes[]

Boxers[]

Other sports[]

Artists[]

Authors[]

Chess players[]

Other people born in/related to Zambia[]

  • Steve Arneil – karate Kyokushin practitioner born in South Africa, but lived in Zambia
  • Joseph and Luka Banda – conjoined twins
  • Lukwesa Burak – Sky News anchor based in London
  • Norman Carr – British wildlife conservationist who set up national parks in Zambia
  • John Edmond – Zambian-born Rhodesian singer
  • Phil Edmonds – English cricketer born in Lusaka
  • Robert Earnshaw – Zambian-born Welsh international football player
  • Stanley Fischer – Zambian-born Deputy Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank and Governor of the Bank of Israel
  • Tawny Gray – sculptor
  • George Gregan – Zambian-born captain of the Australian Wallabies Rugby Union team
  • Amy Holmes – Zambian-born (Zambian father, American mother), The Blaze news anchor and CNN political contributor
  • Daffyd James – Zambian-born Welsh international rugby player
  • V. M. Jones – author
  • Corné Krige – Zambian-born South African Springboks Rugby Union team player
  • Robert Lange – Zambian-born record producer and songwriter
  • Chilu Lemba – radio and TV presenter
  • Rozalla Miller – British/Zimbabwean singer born to a Zambian mother
  • Dambisa Moyo – international economist and best-selling author, born and raised in Lusaka
  • Martin Mubanga – Zambian extrajudicial prisoner of the United States
  • Monica Musonda - lawyer turned entrepreneur
  • Rungano Nyoni – Zambian-born Welsh director
  • Nsofwa Petronella Sampa, psychological counselor and HIV activist.
  • Emeli Sandé – British singer, Zambian father
  • Denise Scott Brown – Zambian-born American architect
  • David Shepherd – British conservationist who has painted Zambian wildlife
  • Kapelwa Sikota (1928–2006) – first Zambian registered nurse
  • Hammerskjoeld Simwinga – conservationist/environmentalist
  • Peter Amos Siwo – pioneering graduate and civil servant
  • Wilbur Smith – Zambian-born British/South African author
  • Jeff Whitley – Zambian-born footballer

Other prominent figures in the history of Zambia[]

This is a list of deceased historical figures (or sub-lists of them) in Zambia and its antecedent territories, and combines Zambians, Africans and non-Zambians including British people and Northern Rhodesians.[citation needed]

  • Robert Edward Codrington – colonial administrator of the two territories ruled by the British South Africa Company (BSAC) which later became Zambia
  • Father Jean-Jacques Corbeil – Canadian missionary and ethnographer of Bemba culture
  • Dan Crawford – missionary pioneer
  • Bishop Joseph Dupont – missionary pioneer
  • Sir Stewart Gore-Browne – called Chipembele by Africans, soldier, pioneer white settler, builder, politician and supporter of independence in Northern Rhodesia
  • List of Governors of Northern Rhodesia
  • List of Governors-General of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
  • Evelyn Dennison Hone – last governor of Northern Rhodesia
  • Alice Lenshina – leader of the Lumpa religious sect
  • General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck – leader of German East Africa forces of World War I
  • Lewanika – Litunga of the Lozi
  • David Livingstone – British Scottish missionary-explorer
  • Michael Mataka – first native Zambian to become police commissioner
  • Mwata Kazembe – Chief of the Kazembe-Lunda
  • Mpezeni – warrior-king of one of the largest Ngoni groups of central Africa
  • Nalumino Mundia – Prime Minister, 1981–1985
  • Alick Nkhata – popular Zambian musician and broadcaster in the 1950s through to the mid-1970s
  • Baldwin Nkumbula
  • Harry Nkumbula – Nationalist leader who assisted in the struggle for the independence of Northern Rhodesia from British colonialism
  • Mwene Chitengi Chiyengele – Mbunda chief who led his tribesmen from north-eastern Angola to Bulozi, western Zambia around 1795.
  • Cecil Rhodes – English-born businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa and an ardent believer in colonialism and imperialism, founder of the state of Rhodesia
  • Sebetwane – Basotho chief who fled from Shaka Zulu, eventually conquering and settling in Western Province
  • Mamochisane – daughter of Sebetwane, succeeded him as Makololo queen
  • Sekeletu – Makololo King of Barotseland in western Zambia from about 1851 to his death in 1863
  • Alfred Sharpe – British administrator and agent for Cecil Rhodes
  • Lawrence Aubrey Wallace
  • Roy Welensky – leader of white trade union and settler politician

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Chewa | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  2. ^ "Kulamba: Symbol of unity in 3 countries – Zambia Daily Mail". www.daily-mail.co.zm. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  3. ^ "Kulamba, the great dance, set for Mkaika – Zambia Daily Mail". www.daily-mail.co.zm. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  4. ^ Rants, Rossco (2014-09-06). "Kulamba". Rossco Rants. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  5. ^ "UNESCO - Gule Wamkulu". ich.unesco.org. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
  6. ^ "Kulamba, the great dance, set for Mkaika – Zambia Daily Mail". www.daily-mail.co.zm. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
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