# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/canaan-banana
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:25:36.914Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/canaan-banana"
name: "Canaan Banana"
slug: "canaan-banana"
description: "Canaan Sodindo Banana was a Zimbabwean Methodist minister, theologian, and politician who served as the first President of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987. He was Zimbabwe's first head of state, a ceremonial president, after the Lancaster House Agreement that led to the country's independence. In 1987, he stepped down as president and was succeeded by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, who became the country's executive president. In 1997, Banana was accused of being a homosexual, and after a highly publicised trial, was convicted of 11 counts of sodomy and \"unnatural acts\", serving six months in prison."
tagline: "1st President of Zimbabwe (1936-2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Canaan_Banana.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1936-03-05"
deathDate: "2003-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.36038533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Canaan Banana"
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    title: "Canaan Banana"
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    title: "카난 바나나"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Canaan Banana"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump