10 Things You Didn’t Know About Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula
- Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula (15 January 1916 – 8 October 1983) was a Zambian nationalist leader.
- Harry was involved in the movement for the independence of Northern Rhodesia, as Zambia was known until the end of British rule in 1964.
- He was born in the village of Maala in the Namwala district of Zambia’s southern province.
- Nkumbula received his early formal education at Methodist mission schools and in 1934 completed Standard VI at the Kafue Training Institute.
- In 1938 Nkumbula joined the Northern Rhodesian government’s teaching service and later worked in Kitwe and Mufulira on the Copperbelt.
- During World War II he became involved in African nationalist politics, like many other educated Africans of the day.
- Nkumbula went to Kampala’s Makerere University College in Uganda.
- Nkumbula was elected president of the Northern Rhodesian African Congress in 1951.
- In early 1955 Nkumbula and Kaunda were imprisoned together for two months (with hard labour) for distributing “subversive” literature.
- Nkumbula died on 8 October 1983, aged 67.
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