Killion Munyama

Killion Munyama (2016)

Killion Munzele Munyama (born July 10, 1961 in Makali , Zambia ) is a Polish economist and politician .

Life

Munyama was born in the south of the former Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and belongs to the Bantu ethnic group . He grew up on a farm in the suburbs of Lusaka . Under a government scholarship he came in 1981 to Poland, where he in 1987 at the University of Economics in Poznań a degree in Economics as Master graduated. There he received his doctorate in 1994 and finally his habilitation in 2012 . Subsequently, he taught and researched, among other things, at the Business School in Bydgoszcz on questions of banking and international financial trading.

Munyama ran successfully for the district assembly of the district of Grodzisk in 2002 and joined the liberal citizens' platform during the electoral period . In 2006 he ran for this initially unsuccessfully for the regional self-governing body of the Greater Poland Voivodeship , but moved up in 2007 on his electoral list. In 2010 he was re-elected. In the 2011 parliamentary elections , he moved to the Polish lower house, the Sejm , as a directly elected member of the Civic Platform . In 2015 he was successfully re-elected.

Trivia

Munyama has been married to a native Polish woman since 1991 and has three children with her. He is one of a small group of people of African descent who are or were in public life in Poland. These include the former MP John Godson (returned to Nigeria in 2016), the boxer Izuagbe Ugonoh , the actress Aleksandra Szwed , the model Osuenhe Ugonoh , the TV presenters Olimpia Ajakaiye and Rogers Cole-Wilson , the singer Patricia Kazadi , the former soccer player Emmanuel Olisadebe (in Poland 1997-2001) and the former partisant and musician August Agbola O'Browne (emigrated 1958).

Web links

Commons : Killion Munyama  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Personal website (Polish)
• Official profile on the website of the Sejm (Polish)

Footnotes