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Edith Nawakwi

Zambian politician and economist

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born: 1959
died: 2025
age at death: 66
known for: politician, economist, minister

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Edith Zewelani Nawakwi was a Zambian politician and economist. She was the first woman in Zambia to hold the post of Minister of Finance following her appointment in 1998 since Zambia's independence 33 years previously to that time. She was also the first woman to hold that post in the SADC region. Nawakwi was the President of the Forum for Democracy and Development under which she ran for president at the 2011 general election and the 2016 general election.

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