PERMA BANDA
Levy Mwanawasa, president of Zambia during much of the aughts, garnered respect for his efforts against corruption. He suffered a stroke in the summer of 2008 that thrust VP Rupiah Banda to the acting presidency, which was off to a bumbling start with Banda routinely painting a vague picture of recovery for Mwanawasa. This is typically African leader parlance for “they gonna die”, which Mwanawasa did that August. Now fully president, Banda narrowly won a proper term several months later and displayed a considerably more lax attitude towards corruption. He dismantled Mwanawasa’s prior efforts and indulged in graft, and the booming economy was less focal to the 2011 electorate than the fact Banda was benefiting from the cash influx a little too disproportionately. He lost reelection and was stripped by parliament of presidential immunity in 2013, but as is typical of corrupt African leaders, evaded any serious repercussions. With his death at 85, there are now no living Zambian presidents who served earlier than 2014 and unique points in Hell to the Chief’s lap.
Rupiah Banda
19 February 1937 – 11 March 2022, aged 85
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