# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edith-nawakwi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:34:40.076Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edith-nawakwi"
name: "Edith Nawakwi"
slug: "edith-nawakwi"
description: "Edith Zewelani Nawakwi was a Zambian politician and economist. She was the first woman in Zambia to hold the post of Minister of Finance following her appointment in 1998 since Zambia's independence 33 years previously to that time. She was also the first woman to hold that post in the SADC region. Nawakwi was the President of the Forum for Democracy and Development under which she ran for president at the 2011 general election and the 2016 general election."
tagline: "Zambian politician and economist"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1959"
deathDate: "2025-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.58
  momentum:             9.090909090909088
  historical:           5.739057333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ENawakwi"
    handle:    "ENawakwi"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7046567/"
    handle:    "nm7046567"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edith_Nawakwi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "اديث ناواكوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Nawakwi"
    title: "Edith Nawakwi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Nawakwi"
    title: "Edith Nawakwi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Nawakwi"
    title: "Edith Nawakwi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Nawakwi"
    title: "Edith Nawakwi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tum.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Nawakwi"
    title: "Edith Nawakwi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26721408"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump