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Canaan Sodindo Banana (5 March 1936 – 10 November 2003) was a Zimbabwean Methodist minister, theologian, and politician who served as the first President of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987. He was Zimbabwe's first head of state (Ceremonial President) after the Lancaster House Agreement that led to the country’s independence.
Canaan Sodindo Banana (Essexvale, 5 marzo 1936 – Fulham, 10 novembre 2003) è stato un politico zimbabwese. Presidente dello Zimbabwe dal 18 aprile 1980 al 31 dicembre 1987, è stato il primo capo di Stato del paese africano.
27 nov 2003 · Canaan Banana was Zimbabwe's first black president, serving as head of state for seven years after independence in 1980. It was a ceremonial post, however: real authority lay with the...
10 nov 2003 · Zimbabwe's first black president, Canaan Banana, has died. Mr Banana - who held office from 1980 to 1987 - had been ill with cancer. He was also a former Methodist minister. Zimbabwe was...
11 nov 2003 · The Rev. Canaan Banana, Zimbabwe's first post-independence president, who was convicted and jailed for sodomy, died Monday after a long illness, state television reported. He was 67.
25 set 2022 · Who was Canaan Banana? In 2003, when Canaan Banana, Zimbabwe’s first president, passed away, then-Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe described him as a “rare gift” to Zimbabwe.
Canaan Banana was an eminent political leader of Zimbabwe who went on to become the country’s first black President, after the much-prolonged war of independence. A radical theologian and a Methodist minister, Banana’s early political career enjoyed an honourable status.
