Zumani Zimba

In October 2019, Zimba was hired by the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) then to 'assess and advise on how PF could defend power in the 2021 Presidential and General elections'. Despite his conclusive observations that "PF was too weak and vulnerable to win and defend power in 2021" being heavily opposed by most PF Members of Central Committee, he was officially appointed by President Edgar Lungu on 20 December 2019 as his political advisor. He is a member of the Tonse Alliance, an opposition coalition of Zambian political parties.^[7]

Zimba is a Zambian published author of five books on politics and civil society organisations. Between 2013 and 2018, he worked full time with different public health international organizations such John Snow International (JSI), Plan International and Pact World under SHARe II USAID Project as well as ZCHIP USAID Project as policy advocacy specialist as well as cultural communications advisor. Between 2013 and 2019, he was a part-time political science and public policy lecturer at the University of Zambia (UNZA) and University of Lusaka (UNILUS) besides being the founding consultant and anchor researcher of University of Central Africa (UCA).^[8] Raised in Kapatamoyo hills near Chipata, in March 2023, Ngoni King, Mpezeni Four of the Ngoni people of Eastern Province appointed Zimba as board chairman of the Nsingo Ngoni Museum.^[9]