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| successor1 = [[Sikota Wina]] | | successor1 = [[Sikota Wina]] | ||
| constituency1 = [[Roan (constituency)|Roan]] | | constituency1 = [[Roan (constituency)|Roan]] | ||
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'''Ester Banda''' was a [[Zambia]]n politician. She served as a member of the [[National Assembly of Zambia|National Assembly]] for [[Roan | '''Ester Banda''' was a [[Zambia]]n [[politician]]. She served as a member of the [[National Assembly of Zambia|National Assembly]] for [[Roan constituency|Roan]] from 1964 to 1968 and was jointly one of the first elected female members of parliament in Zambia. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
A member of the [[United National Independence Party]] (UNIP), Banda was appointed Under-Secretary of the Women's Brigade, having rallied support for the party in [[Ndola]].<ref>''Interdesciplinary Conference on Gender and Colonialism'', University of the Western Cape, 1997, Volume 2, p106</ref> | A member of the [[United National Independence Party]] (UNIP), Banda was appointed Under-Secretary of the Women's Brigade, having rallied support for the party in [[Ndola]].<ref>''Interdesciplinary Conference on Gender and Colonialism'', University of the Western Cape, 1997, Volume 2, p106</ref> | ||
In the [[1964 Northern Rhodesian general election|January 1964 general elections]], Banda contested the [[Roan | In the [[1964 Northern Rhodesian general election|January 1964 general elections]], Banda contested the [[Roan constituency|Roan]] constituency as the UNIP candidate, and was elected to the Legislative Council, one of the three women elected alongside [[Margret Mbeba]] and [[Nakatindi Yeta Nganga]].<ref>Mbuyo Nalumango and Monde Sifuniso (1998) ''Woman power in politics'', Zambia Women Writers Association, p48</ref> At independence later in 1964, the Legislative Council became the National Assembly. She lost her seat in the [[1968 Zambian general election|1968 elections]] and later served as a district governor and UNIP's provincial secretary in [[Copperbelt Province]].<ref>''Official verbatim report of the debates of the second session of the second National Assembly'', Volume 2, Issue 2, Part 1, p2185</ref><ref>''Sub-Saharan Africa Report'', Issues 2457–2463, p22</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
