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 B. A., M. A. three and received 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 politician Inonge Mbikusita - Lewanika and Wamundila Mbikusita - Lewanika and businessman. Today, he is Chairman of the Board National Economic Advisory Council

He was co-founder of the party, the Movement for Multiparty Democracy and thus one of those who established democracy in Zambia again. In the first government of Frederick Chiluba, he was from 1991 to 1992 Minister of Science, Technology and vocational schools. He left the MMD in 1993, but 2005 still cited as a spokesperson for the party. In the election in Zambia in 1996, he joined as a presidential candidate for the newly founded Party National Party in the electoral alliance Agenda for Zambia, which he is chairman, and achieved 4.7 percent of the vote.

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

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