Mwelwa C. Musambachime is a graduate of the Universities of Zambia in Lusaka (1974), Wisconsin at Madison, USA (1976, 1981) and Uppsala, Sweden (1994). He has taught at the University of Zambia 1974 –1997, 2005 – the time of his death in April 2017. As a member of staff at the University of Zambia from 1974 to 1997, he served in many positions as Head of Department, Dean of the School of Education, Director of the Institute of Human Relations and Research and Graduate Studies. He was also a visiting scholar at Miami University, Oxford (Ohio) in United States of America (1984 to 1985); Cape Town (1991) and Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (1993); Chancellor College, Malawi (1995) and several other universities in the USA, South Africa, Malawi, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Burundi, Madagascar and France. He was also a recipient of many awards. Between1997 and 2000, he taught at the University of Namibia as Professor and Head of the Department of History. Between September 2000 and March 2005, he served as Zambia’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative at the United Nations, New York and was non-resident Ambassador to the Republic of Cuba, and non-resident High Commissioner to Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Guyana and other English-speaking Commonwealth countries in the West Indies. At the time of his death, he was Professor of History at the University of Zambia. He has done extensive research and published widely on political, economic, social, health, veterinary, and environmental issues in Eastern and Southern Africa.