Dr. Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika
Family Background

Father  I  Mother  I  Daughters

Father - Mbikusita Lewanika II
Mbikusita Lewanika II, was a Litunga (King) of Barotseland (1968-1977); Government Minister and Member of Parliament (1958-1963), Founder President-General of the Northern Rhodesia African Congress (1948-1951); a pioneer organizer of trade union moment; in addition to having been a full time career serving as in worker welfare, public relations and human resource management functions for more than two decades.

Mother - Namaya Namakau Ng’umbi
Namaya Namakau Ng’umbi, was a Moyo Imwambo (Consort to the King of Barotseland, (1968-1977); Civic and Social Development workers, School teacher, Church Leader and a pioneer of the Women Rights and Women welfare organisations, including being the first African women to register as a voter in Zambia, founder of the Young Women’ Christian Association and Girl Guide Movement in Zambia.

Paternal Grandfaterh - Lewanika I
Lewanika I of Barotseland (1878-1916); signatory to the 1900 Protectorate Treaty between the Kingdom of Barotseland and Her majesty Queen Victoria’s Government of Great Britain and a participant at a summit meeting in London, England with King Edward VII of Britain in 1902; one of the African Kings on the Upper House of Chiefs of what is now the South African National Congress, at its founding in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1912.

Princess of the Barotse Royal family and Served as Mukwae Ngula (Statutory Queen Mother) of the Kingdom of Barotseland (1968-1977).

Sister of twelve siblings.

Mother of two daughters.

Grandmother of five grandsons and one granddaughter. Was married to the late Mr. Kabuka Nyirenda, who had long served the Government of the Republic of Zambia, as a senior diplomat at the United Nations and in Germany and, as Permanent Secretary.

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