Background
Munyama was born in Monze, Zambia. Later his family moved to Mumbwa and then to Mkushi where Munyama grew up on a farm.
Munyama was born in Monze, Zambia. Later his family moved to Mumbwa and then to Mkushi where Munyama grew up on a farm.
He graduated from the Poznań University of Economics in 1987. After graduation he worked for the Zambian government and then returned to Poland in 1994. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the Poznań University of Economics in 1994, with a dissertation "International Monetary Fund Conditionality and the Problem of Structural Adjustment in the Zambian Economy".
In 2012 he habilitated, based on his work "Economic Growth and Financial Development in Sub-Saharan African Countries: The Case of International Monetary Fund Programmes in Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia" (Wzrost gospodarczy a rozwój finansowy w Afryce Subsaharyjskiej na przykładzie programów MFW w Kenii, Mozambiku, Ugandzie i Zambii).
Munyama"s fields of specialisation are banking and international finance.
He has been working at the Poznań University of Economics since obtaining his doctorate and has also taught at the Bydgoszcz Higher School of Economics.
He came to Poland on a scholarship in 1981 to study International Finance. Munyama has stated that initially he planned on returning to Zambia after graduation, as he saw no opportunities for academics in communist Poland. In the 2002 elections Munyama was elected as a delegate to the local council of Grodzisk Wielkopolski County.
In the 2011 elections he was elected to the Sejm.
Munyama describes his views as liberal and pro-market. As a Sejm deputy he has worked on issues of government finance and foreign policy.
Along with John Godson, he is one of the two parliamentarians in the Polish (7th) Sejm of African descent.
However, after the fall of Communism in Poland he changed his mind as he saw an opportunity for improvement and a "chance to rid (the country) of the grey reality of communism". In 2006 he joined the Civic Platform centre-right party and was elected to the Greater Poland Regional Assembly.