Robinson Mwaakwe Nabulyato (28 October 1916 – 12 September 2004) was a
Zambia
Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most cent ...
n politician. He served as a member of the
Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia
A legislature is an deliberative assembly, assembly with the authority to make laws for a Polity, political entity such as a Sovereign state, country or city. They are often contrasted with the Executive (government), executive and Judiciary, ...
between 1954 and 1958 and then
Speaker of the National Assembly of Zambia
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from 1968 until 1988 and again from 1991 until 1998.
Biography
Nabulyato was born in Banamwaze in 1916, and attended Methodist mission schools in Nanzila and
Kafue
Kafue is a town in the Lusaka Province of Zambia and it lies on the north bank of the Kafue River, after which it is named. It is the southern gateway to the central Zambian plateau on which Lusaka and the mining towns of Kabwe and the Copperbe ...
.Ng'ona Mwela Chibesakunda (2001) ''The Parliament of Zambia'', p38 He later attended Chalimbana College, going on to work as a teacher. He joined the Northern Rhodesian Congress in 1948 and became its Secretary-General.
In 1954 Nabulyato became a member of the Legislative Council after being appointed as one of the four African members, representing Southern Province. He contested the South-Western seat in the 1959 general elections, running as an independent against Congress leader
Harry Nkumbula
Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula (15 January 1916 – 8 October 1983)Wesley Nyirenda had resigned to take up a ministerial position. He remained Speaker until retiring in 1988. However, three years later he was chosen as the Speaker for the first multi-party National Assembly since the early 1970s. He retired again in 1998. He died in the Kabulonga suburb of
Lusaka
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on 12 September 2004.Farewell Nabulyato Times of Zambia, 16 September 2004
Honours and awards
Nabulyato was awarded the Order of the Grand Companion of Freedom in 1965. In 1972 he was made a Knight Grand Band of the
Humane Order of African Redemption
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by Liberian President
William R. Tolbert Jr.
William Richard Tolbert Jr. (13 May 1913 – 12 April 1980) was a Liberian politician who served as the 20th president of Liberia from 1971 until 1980.
Tolbert was an Americo-Liberian and trained as a civil servant before entering the House ...
The
University of Zambia
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gave him an honorary
LL.D
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