# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joshua-nkomo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:00:46.120Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joshua-nkomo"
name: "Joshua Nkomo"
slug: "joshua-nkomo"
description: "Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and Socialist politician who served as Vice-President of Zimbabwe from 1990 until his death in 1999. He founded and led the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) from 1961 until, after an internal military crackdown in western Zimbabwe, mostly targeting ethnic Ndebele ZAPU supporters, ZAPU merged in 1987 with Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) to form ZANU–PF."
tagline: "Zimbabwean politician (1917-1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joshua_Nkomo_(1978).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1917-06-19"
deathDate: "1999-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.994904
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump