Gwendoline Konie
Gwendoline Noreen Chomba Konie (9 October 1938 – 14 March 2009) was a Zambian poet, diplomat and politician. She was the Zambian ambassador to Scandinavia, the United Nations and Germany. She formed her own party in 2000 and stood as a candidate to be the President of Zambia in 2001.
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Gwendoline Konie

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- Born
- 1938. · Lusaka.
- Died
- 2009. · Lusaka.
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- Zambia.
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- politician, diplomat, poet and writer.
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- American University.
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- English.
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Gwendoline Noreen Chomba Konie (9 October 1938 – 14 March 2009) was a Zambian poet, diplomat and politician. She was the Zambian ambassador to Scandinavia, the United Nations and Germany. She formed her own party in 2000 and stood as a candidate to be the President of Zambia in 2001.
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When she died she was given a state funeral.
Konie was born in 1938 in Lusaka in what was then Northern Rhodesia and is now Zambia. She was educated at Cardiff University in Cardiff, Wales and the American University in Washington, D.C., United States. She received a doctorate in sociology from the University of Warwick. In 1962, she was chosen by Sir Evelyn Dennison Hone, the Governor-General of Northern Rhodesia, to become a member of her country's Legislative Council. She consulted Kenneth Kaunda before accepting. She then trained for the Foreign Office and rose to be Zambia's Ambassador and Plenipotentiary to Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland from 1974 to 1977. From 1977 she was the country's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. In 1979 she became the Permanent Secretary of Zambia's Tourism Ministry. After Kenneth Kaunda lost power she was retained as a diplomat by President Frederick Chiluba until 1997. She was the Zambian Ambassador to Germany. In 2001, she was a candidate in the 2001 Zambian general election, to be the President of Zambia. She stood for the Social Democratic Party which she formed in August 2000 to concentrate on issues important to women and children. One million votes were cast for eleven candidates in the elections. Two of the candidates were women. Konie received more than 10,000 votes and Levy Mwanawasa was elected. Konie was also a poet. Her poem "In the Fist of your Hatred" was included in The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry in 2007. The poem is a polemic against male arrogance. She died at MKP Trust Hospital in Lusaka in 2009 and received a state funeral. President Rupiah Banda said it was a day for Zambia to mourn her death and Kenneth Kaunda noted her involvement with the formation of Zambia following independence from Britain.

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1938
Gwendoline Konie was born on 9 October 1938.
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Gwendoline Konie died on 14 March 2009.
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- 1.Karen L. Kinnear. Women in Developing Countries: A Reference Handbook: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO. 159. 22 July 2011. 978-1-59884-426-9.
- 2.Gwendoline Chomba Konie – Zambia, GenderLinks.org.za
- 3.Robin Morgan. Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology. Feminist Press at CUNY. 742–744. 1984. 978-1-55861-160-3.
- 4.Party led by woman a first for Zambia, 28 August 2000, iol.co.za, Retrieved 2 February 2016
- 5.Adrian Karatnycky. Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, 2000-2001. Transaction Publishers. 594. June 2001. 978-0-7658-0101-2.
- 6.Gerald Moore. The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. Penguin Books Limited. 399. 30 August 2007. 978-0-14-191290-5.
- 7.Gwendoline Konie Dies, 15 March 2009, Lusaka Times, Retrieved 2 February 2016
- 8.Reflecting on Gwendoline Konie's life, Kenneth Kaunda, March 2009, Retrieved 2 February 2016
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