Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika

Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika (born February 4, 1948 in Mongu ) is a politician in Zambia .

Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika studied at the universities of Boston, Carleton (Canada), as well as Cornell and Jackson State (Mississippi). He holds a BA, three MA and his doctorate in 1973 with the dissertation Marketing Boards and the Challenge of Agricultural Development in Zambia

Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika is prince, son of Lewanika II. King of Barotseland , brother of the politician Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika and Wamundila Mbikusita-Lewanika and a businessman. Today he is Chairman of the National Economic Advisory Council.

He was a co-founder of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy party and thus one of those who restored democracy in Zambia. In the first government of Frederick Chiluba he was Minister for Science, Technology and Vocational Schools from 1991 to 1992. He left the MMD in 1993, but is still quoted as a spokesman for this party in 2005. In the 1996 election in Zambia , he stood as a presidential candidate for the newly founded National Party in the election alliance Agenda for Zambia , of which he is chairman, and won 4.7 percent of the vote.

Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika was explicitly associated with the Barotse Patriotic Front in 1998 and the Agenda for Zambia was referred to as a party of two Lozi groups. The defeat of his sister Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika as AZ presidential candidate in the 2001 election in Zambia should have put an end to these dreams for good - even if weapons from Angola are easy and cheap to get.

Web links

• Biography ( Memento from September 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)