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Joshua Nkomo

1917 - 1999

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Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (19 June 1917 – 1 July 1999) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Vice-President of Zimbabwe from 1990 until his death in 1999. He founded and led the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) from 1961 until, after an internal military crackdown (known as Gukurahundi) in western Zimbabwe, mostly targeting ethnic Ndebele ZAPU supporters, ZAPU merged in 1987 with Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) to form ZANU–PF. He was a leading trade union leader, who progressed on to become president of the banned National Democratic Party, and was jailed for ten years by Rhodesia's white minority government. After his release in 1974, ZAPU contributed to the fall of that government, along with the splinter rival ZANU, created in 1963. In 1983, fearing for his life in the early stages of the Gukurahundi, Nkomo fled the country. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joshua Nkomo has received more than 806,033 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Joshua Nkomo is the 13,507th most popular politician (up from 13,926th in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Zimbabwe (up from 12th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Zimbabwean Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Joshua Nkomo ranks 13,507 out of 19,576. Before him are Gusu of Baekje, Inge Sørensen, Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Òscar Ribas Reig, Eugen Suchoň, and Gyude Bryant. After him are John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, Arsen Avakov, Mohammad Natsir, Georgios Kountouriotis, Vicente Rocafuerte, and Pierre Dupong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Joshua Nkomo ranks 218. Before him are Mikhail Devyataev, Lev Kerbel, Isuzu Yamada, Ernesto Alonso, Miroslav Brozović, and Laurindo Almeida. After him are Marion Donovan, Fritz Honegger, Desi Arnaz, Babiker Awadalla, José Perácio, and Li Rui. Among people deceased in 1999, Joshua Nkomo ranks 165. Before him are Art Farmer, Zuleykha Seyidmammadova, Jehan Buhan, Charles Crichton, Lee Falk, and Galina Bystrova. After him are Johannes Käbin, Annibale Frossi, Fritz Honegger, Robert Mills, Ellen Corby, and Teuvo Aura.

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In Zimbabwe

Among people born in Zimbabwe, Joshua Nkomo ranks 9 out of 45. Before him are Ian Smith (1919), Charlene, Princess of Monaco (1978), Canaan Banana (1936), Albert Lutuli (1898), Rupiah Banda (1937), and Morgan Tsvangirai (1952). After him are John Love (1924), Alexander McCall Smith (1948), Abel Muzorewa (1925), Paula Hawkins (1972), Lobengula (1845), and Tsitsi Dangarembga (1959).

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Among POLITICIANS In Zimbabwe

Among politicians born in Zimbabwe, Joshua Nkomo ranks 8. Before him are Emmerson Mnangagwa (1942), Ian Smith (1919), Canaan Banana (1936), Albert Lutuli (1898), Rupiah Banda (1937), and Morgan Tsvangirai (1952). After him are Abel Muzorewa (1925), Lobengula (1845), Roy Welensky (1907), Phelekezela Mphoko (1940), and Sibusiso Moyo (1960).

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