Edith Zewelani Nawakwi
Statement
Edith Nawakwi was the first woman in Zambia to be elected president of a political party, the Forum for Democratic Development. In 1998, she was also Zambia’s first woman Minister of Finance since Zambia’s independence 33 years previously, and the first in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Edith Nawakwi has held a number of other ministerial positions, but her portfolios have been exclusively domestic. She has a degree in economics and business management and a post-graduate diploma in the economics of energy and development from Imperial College, University of London.
We have not been able to identify this candidate’s position on international affairs and no comments from her on non-domestic matters appear to exist in the online public record. If you are aware of any such comments, please contact us immediately using the contact form.
We have attempted to contact Ms Nawakwi in order to invite her to respond to our two standard questions:
1. If you are elected, what will you do for the rest of us, around the world?
2. What is your vision for your country's role in the world? So far we have not received a response but we'll keep trying until the poll closes.
