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''Against All Odds: Zambia's President Edgar Chagwa Lungu's Rough Journey to State House'' is a
''Against All Odds'' is written by a first-time writer about Zambia's President
biography
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or ...
of Zambia's President Edgar Lungu
Edgar Chagwa Lungu (born 11 November 1956) is a Zambian politician who served as the sixth president of Zambia from 25 January 2015 to 24 August 2021. Under President Michael Sata, Lungu served as Minister of Justice and Minister of Defence. Fo ...
by the Zambian journalist and senior diplomat Anthony Mukwita, published by Partridge Africa on 5 January 2017.
The book, written by Zambia's former Deputy Ambassador to Sweden
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and former Ambassador to Germany
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, set many records when it became the first Zambian book to go on sale at Barnes & Noble
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and the first Zambian book on a head of state to be featured in the London Book Fair in Hammersmith
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Mukwita previously worked as Editor-in-Chief of the ''Daily Mail'', Zambia's largest daily circulation newspaper, and was a World Bank
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winner for Best Investigative Journalism in 2012.
Overview
''Against All Odds'' is written by a first-time writer about Zambia's President Edgar Lungu
Edgar Chagwa Lungu (born 11 November 1956) is a Zambian politician who served as the sixth president of Zambia from 25 January 2015 to 24 August 2021. Under President Michael Sata, Lungu served as Minister of Justice and Minister of Defence. Fo ...
and his path from an unassuming lawyer and minister to the president of one of the world's leading copper-producing countries.
Editions
* First, 2017. Partridge Africa . ** Paperback, 2017. Partridge Africa. (174 pages) ** Hardback, 2017. Partridge Africa. (174 pages)References
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