Mutumba Mainga or Mutumba Mainga Bull (born 1938) is a

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and politician. She was the first Zambian woman to gain a PhD,Mwila Ntambi
Former nun, now mother, wife, headteacher
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'', March 16, 2018. the first Zambian woman to lecture at the

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,Zambia Lusaka telegram to Department of State, 10 January 1974. Published by

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. Accessed 8 May 2020. and the first Zambian woman to serve as a full Cabinet Minister in Zambia.

Life

Mutumba Mainga came from Nalikolo, a village in

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. She was the daughter of Induna,

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of the

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. She was educated at Sefula Mission School, Senanga Mission School, Mabumbu Mission School, Chipembi Mission School and Goromonzi Government School, before gaining her first degree from the

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, and a BA in history from the

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in 1963. In 1965 she married Nicholas Theodore Bull, a grandson of

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. In 1969 she gained her history PhD from the University of London. She also spent a year of postgraduate research at the

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. From 1969 to 1973 she lectured in history at the

. In 1973 Mutumba Mainga Bull was elected to parliament, as MP for Nalolo Constituency in

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. From 1973 to 1976 she was Minister of Health. She held various positions in

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before retiring from active politics in 1991. In 1996 Mutumba Mainga Bull returned to the University of Zambia as a Senior Research Fellow. From 2005 to 2008 she was the Director of the Institute of Economic and Social Research at the University.

Works

* 'A History of Lozi Religion to the end of the Nineteenth Century', in Terence O. Ranger and Isaria N. Kimambo, eds., ''The Historical Study of African Religion''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972 * ''Bulozi under the Luyana Kings: Political Evolution and State Formation in Pre-colonial Zambia''. London: Longmans, 1973. * ''The Barotseland Agreement 1964 in Historical Perspective: A Preliminary Study''. 1996. * 'Gender dimensions of multiparty politics: Elections 2001 in Zambia', 2002. * 'Reserved Area: Barotseland of the 1964 Agreement', ''Zambia Social Science Journal'', Vol. 5, No. 1 (2014)

References

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