Against All Odds (biography)

Against All Odds: Zambia's President Edgar Chagwa Lungu's Rough Journey to State House is a biography of Zambia's President Edgar Lungu by the Zambian journalist and senior diplomat Anthony Mukwita, published by Partridge Africa on 5 January 2017.[3][4][5][6]

Against All Odds: Zambia's President Edgar Chagwa Lungu's Rough Journey to State House
Against All Odds - Zambia's President Edgar Chagwa Lungu's Rough Journey to State House
AuthorAnthony Mukwita[1]
CountryZambia
SubjectEdgar Lungu[2]
GenreBiography
PublisherPartridge Africa
Publication date
2017
Media typeE-book, print (hardback and paperback), and audiobook
Pages174
ISBN978-1-4828-7724-3 (2017 ed.)

The book, written by Zambia's Deputy Ambassador to Sweden, set many records when it became the first Zambian book to go on sale at Barnes & Noble and the first Zambian book on a head of state to be featured in the London Book Fair in Hammersmith.[3][4][7][8][9]

Mukwita previously worked as Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Mail, Zambia's largest daily circulation newspaper, and was a World Bank winner for Best Investigative Journalism in 2012.[6][10][11][12][13][14]

Overview
Author Anthony Mukwita gives President Edgar Lungu a copy of Against All Odds in January 2017.

Against All Odds is written by a first-time writer about Zambia's President Edgar Chagwa Lungu and his path from an unassuming lawyer and minister to the president of one the world's leading copper-producing countries.

Editions
  • First, 2017. Partridge Africa .
    • Paperback, 2017. Partridge Africa. (174 pages)
    • Hardback, 2017. Partridge Africa. (174 pages)
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References
  1. "'Against All Odds' breaks sales records". 4 May 2017.
  2. "Lungu's Rough Journey to State House goes global". 24 January 2017.
  3. "Against All Odds: Zambia's President Edgar Chagwa Lungu's Rough Journey to State House". 5 January 2017.
  4. "Against All Odds - Paperback (by Anthony Mukwita (Author))". 5 January 2017.
  5. "Lungu's Rough Journey to State House goes global". 9 January 2017.
  6. "Mukwita Says Book On Pres. Lungu's Journey To Plot One Selling Like Hot Cake". 11 March 2017.
  7. "Against All Odds: Zambia'S President Edgar Chagwa Lungu'S Rough Journey to State House". 5 January 2016.
  8. "Lungu tie, hat fetch K500,000". 1 May 2017.
  9. "'Against all Odds' impress Kirkus Review magazine". 4 May 2017.
  10. "Anthony Mukwita publishes book about President Lungu's journey to State House". 9 January 2017.
  11. "Against All Odds by Anthony Mukwita". 15 March 2017.
  12. "Against all odds: Zambia's President Edgar Chagwa Lungu's rough journey to state house (Paperback by Anthony Mukwita)". 5 January 2017.
  13. "Against All Odds: Zambia's President Edgar Chagwa Lungu's Rough Journey to State House (Hardback - Anthony Mukwita)". 9 January 2017.
  14. "Chanda supports 'Against All Odds'". 13 March 2017.
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