In the picture, we have Glenda Puteho McCoo and Inonge Wina, Zambia's Republican Vice President from 2015 to 2021
This phonograph was taken in 1963 when Inonge Wina (in white top) with Glenda McCoo (in black top) visited Northern Rhodesia in 1963 from Los Angeles California where they were studying.
Glenda Mcoo an American student, was fiancée to veteran freedom fighter Sikota Wina and had come to Zambia on an “Operation Crossroads” team which worked at Chalimbana near Lusaka.
Inonge Wina was married to freedom fighter and Sikota Wina’s brother, Arthur.
Glenda was Sikota Wina's first wife, before they divorced and In 1971, Glenda Wina returned to Los Angeles with her daughter, Mpambo.
It is said Mpambo was their adopted daughter or Sikota Wina's daughter from a previous relationship but this is not clear.
Sikota Wina was to later marry Princess Nakatindi Nganga.
At the height of his romance with Princess Nakatindi in the early 1970s, Sikota Wina disappeared from his ministerial duties for several days until Dr Kenneth Kaunda used the intelligence wing to locate him? He was spending some quality time with his soon to be wife.
In his heyday Sikota Wina was famously called the Cow Boy and a lot of women wanted him according to the late Princess Nakatindi Wina.She had to beat and scatter them to get her man.
Back to Glenda. When she returned to the US, she became the first African-American news anchorwoman with a network owned and-operated television station in Los Angeles, KNXT, and one of the first specialist reporter-editors in health and science.
She taught journalism at the University of Southern California (USC) and also freelance, with, among others, GW International and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke. Wina co-hosted the PM Show with Mario Machado.
Glenda Wina (as she is known) has also had small acting roles in some American movies and TV series, most notably as a reporter in Cobra (1986 movie starring Sylvestor Stallone).
Glenda Wina is also elder sister of American actress and singer Marilyn McCoo
Source - IMBD, Zambian Observer
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