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Article: LEVY MWANAWASA
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 20, 2008
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President of Zambia who fought against corruption and was a
fierce and vocal critic of Robert Mugabe
LEVY MWANAWASA, President of Zambia since 2002, was part of a new
generation of African leaders whose formative years were not spent
fighting for liberation. Zambia won independence from Britain in
1964 when Mwanawasa was just 15, and his early career was instead
taken up with the battle against corruption.
It was this background that led Mwanawasa to become such a fierce
critic of the Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Where Thabo Mbeki
of South Africa and Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola saw a fellow
liberation leader under attack from the West, Mwanawasa saw an
ailing demagogue whose ...