Nkomo, Joshua, 1917-1999

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Joshua Nkomo (b. June 19, 1917, Zimbabwe–d. July 1, 1999, Harare, Zimbabwe) was a Zimbabwean politician who served as Vice President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 1999. He was leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) party, and a member of the Ndebele people (Kalanga).

He was a trades-union leader, who became president of the banned National Democratic Party, and was jailed for ten years by Rhodesia's white minority government. After his release, ZAPU contributed to the fall of that government, but then feuded with the rival ZANU group led by Robert Mugabe. Fearing for his life, Nkomo fled the country, before controversially allowing ZAPU to merge with ZANU.

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referencedIn H. K. Banda Archive, 1924-2005, bulk 1950-1997 IU Libraries African Studies Collection
referencedIn Records of the Agency for International Development. 1948 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to International Development Programs and Activities National Archives at College Park
referencedIn Marcum, John A. John Marcum papers, 1950-1981. Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
referencedIn Zimbabwe-Rhodesia Constitutional Conference, 1979 School of Oriental and African Studies
referencedIn Devlin Commission of Enquiry, Nyasaland, 1959 York University, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research
referencedIn Records of the Agency for International Development. 1948 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to International Development Programs and Activities. 1979 - 1991. Zimbabwe National Archives at College Park
referencedIn Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Granada Television: World in Action transcripts: Rhodesia, 1963, 1963 Institute of Commonwealth Studies
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Death 1999-07-01

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