''Against All Odds: Zambia's President Edgar Chagwa Lungu's Rough Journey to State House'' is a

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of Zambia's former President

Edgar Lungu Edgar Chagwa Lungu (11 November 1956 – 5 June 2025) was a Zambian politician who served as the sixth president of Zambia from 26 January 2015 to 24 August 2021. Under President Michael Sata, Lungu served as Minister of Justice and Minister ...

by the Zambian journalist and senior diplomat Anthony Mukwita, published by Partridge Africa on 5 January 2017. The book, written by Zambia's former Deputy Ambassador to

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and former Ambassador to

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, set many records when it became the first Zambian book to go on sale at

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and the first Zambian book on a head of state to be featured in the

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. Mukwita previously worked as Editor-in-Chief of the ''Daily Mail'', Zambia's largest daily circulation newspaper, and was a

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winner for Best Investigative Journalism in 2012.

Overview

Author Anthony Mukwita gives President Edgar Lungu a copy of the Against All Odds book

''Against All Odds'' is written by a first-time writer about Zambia's President

and his path from an unassuming lawyer and minister to the president of one of the world's leading copper-producing countries.

Editions

* First, 2017. Partridge Africa . ** Paperback, 2017. Partridge Africa. (174 pages) ** Hardback, 2017. Partridge Africa. (174 pages)

References

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