Alexander Bwalya Chikwanda (24 December 1938 - 3 May 2022) was a

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politician. He was a member of the

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during the 1960s and again in the 2010s, also serving as

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from 1973 to 1976 and again from October 2011 to September 2016.

Biography

He studied economics at

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. In the 1964 general elections he was elected to the Legislative Council in the Kitwe North constituency, but later gave up his seat so that it could be contested by Andrew Mutemba. He returned to the National Assembly as MP for

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in the 1973 elections. In 2011 became a member of the National Assembly again after being

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by President

Michael Sata Michael Charles Chilufya Sata (6 July 1937 – 28 October 2014) was a Zambian politician who was the fifth president of Zambia, from 23 September 2011 until his death on 28 October 2014. A social democrat, he led the Patriotic Front (PF), a maj ...

Personal life

He was an uncle of the former President

References

1938 births Living people Finance Ministers of Zambia Members of the National Assembly of Zambia Patriotic Front (Zambia) politicians Lund University alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Members of the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia {{Zambia-politician-stub