Monica Nanyangwe Chintu was a Zambian politician, one of Zambia's first female politicians.[1]

Life

Before entering Parliament, Chintu was active in the Women's Brigade of the United National Independence Party (UNIP).[2] She served two terms in Parliament as an MP.[1] She was returned UNIP Member of Parliament for Mbala North in the 1968 election, where she was the only elected woman MP. There she spoke out against the low level of women's representation in UNIP and in government.[2] In the 1973 election she was returned as MP for Senga Hill.

When a Women's Brigade hierarchy was established in 1974, Chintu was elected to serve as its vice-Secretary. She was a member of the 1976 Women's Council of Zambia, drawing up a programme of action for the UN Decade for Women.[2] As deputy for B. C. Kankasa in the UNIP Women's League, Chintu attended the first seminar organized by the Committee of the Bulgarian Women’s Movement (CBWM) after the Second World Conference on Women in Copenhagen in 1980.[3]

In 2014 President Michael Sata awarded Chintu the Companion Order of Freedom, first division.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Kristen Ghodsee (2019). Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War. Duke University Press. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-4780-0327-4.
  2. 1 2 3 Lubosi Kikamba, The Role of Women's Organisations in the Political Development of Zambia, 1964-2001: A case study of the UNIP Women's League and the Zambia National Women's Lobby Group, MA thesis, University of Zambia, 2012, p.173-4, 176, 182
  3. ↑ Kristen Ghodsee (January 2015). "Socialist Internationalism and State Feminism during the Cold War: The Case of Bulgaria and Zambia". Clio. Women, Gender, History. 41 (1): 115–138.
  4. ↑ President Sata Pardons 365 prisoners Archived 2022-10-19 at the Wayback Machine, Tumfweko, 26 May 2014. Accessed 21 January 2021.

Further reading

  • M. Mwafulilwa (1998). "Monica Chintu: the battle almost won". In Mbuyu Nalumango; Monde Sifuniso (eds.). Woman Power in Politics. Zambia Women Writers Association. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-9982-9911-2-4.
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