Career
He was a pupil at Munali Boys Secondary School, Lusaka and became Head Boy, at that time it was the only secondary school for black boys in the then Northern Rhodesia. He did his postgraduate studies at Columbia University, in New New York He was the first black graduate to work at the Luansha Mines.
Before independence, he lived in a little house in no man"s land in the Copperbelt.
They did not want to put him with the black miners in those tiny houses because he was a graduate, but they could not put him in a big house in the white area either because he was black. He was the first chairman of Zambia Airways.
He was Permanent Secretary in the then Ministry of Power, Transport Works and Communications for about five years when UDI was declared. After he left they split it into three different ministries.
He chaired many meetings for United Nations Education committees and Commonwealth Education Conferences and World Bank meetings
He chaired and worked on the Education Reforms in Zambia and was the first Director of Examinations Board. He was often quoted by Times of Zambia. He studied at Street Antony"s College, Oxford University 1982-1983.