1. Chipokota Mwanawasa is the daughter of Levy Mwanawasa the third president of Zambia and lawyer and politician Maureen Mwanawasa.
10 Facts About Chipokota Mwanawasa
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Chipokota Mwanawasa spent the early part of her childhood in Ndola town on the Copperbelt in Zambia before moving to Lusaka where she attended Nkwazi Primary School - at the time it was a Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Trust School - between 1994 and 2001.
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Chipokota Mwanawasa then proceeded to Chengelo Secondary School in Mkushi where she studied for her secondary education from 2002 to 2006.
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Chipokota Mwanawasa then pursued an LLM master's in commercial law from 2014 to 2016 at the University of Cape Town where she graduated with a distinction.
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In 2012, Chipokota Mwanawasa did an Erasmus year studying for a certificate in French law at the University of Bordeaux Faculty of Law and Political Science.
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Chipokota Mwanawasa has worked as a researcher in the United Kingdom, Kenya and South Africa.
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Just before the 2016 Zambian presidential, parliamentary, and local government elections, Chipokota Mwanawasa, alongside directing her commercial farming and agribusiness ventures, dedicated a full year to work as a political strategist for the United Party for National Development candidate Hakainde Hichilema who later became the seventh president of the Republic of Zambia.
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Chipokota Mwanawasa has been involved in a number of businesses including Chibombo District based Cattle Wealth Management Firm.
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Chipokota Mwanawasa co-authored the discussion paper "Elections in Africa: Preparing a democratic playbook".
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Chipokota Mwanawasa has been involved in charity work and advocacy for the under privileged.