Thu, 15 Jun 2017 09:54:25 +0000 By Annie Zulu ALTHOUGH the first Zambian woman to be appointed chancellor of a full-fledged university, Ruth Mubanga, 60, still brushes aside descriptions of her as a trailblazer. Ms Mubanga, who recently assumed the role of Chancellor of the University of Africa, rather defers the trailblazer description to her father, Ackson Uriah Mwale. Her father had trekked on foot to Malawi in the colonial times to gain education. He later went on to acquire tertiary education from the then Salisbury, now Harare, Zimbabwe. “It is people like my father and many other parents who set such compelling examples of the importance of education who deserve the accolades,’’ she says. So, the extent to which her father had influenced her, is not incidental to who she is today. Ruth says her father did not spare any resources to ensure that all his children got educated. And although her mother, […]
