Prof. Dr. Nevers Sekwila Mumba

Former Vice President of the Republic of Zambia and President of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD). Founder and President of Zambia’s leading evangelical organization, Victory Ministries International.

Evangelical profile

Rev. Dr. Nevers Sekwila Mumba is known as the pioneer of the Charismatic/Evangelical Movement in Zambia. In 1980, he founded an evangelistic movement later named Victory Ministries International. Through this organization, he founded native local churches across his nation Zambia. He became the first local evangelist to hold open-air Gospel crusades, opened the first local Bible college and became Zambia’s first television evangelist in 1989. In 1993, he became the first Zambian minister to host an international interdenominational conference, which brought delegates from all over the world.

Nevers Mumba is an internationally acclaimed speaker traveling the world sharing his flagship message that “the same God who saves people from their sins is the same God who can save a nation socially and politically.” He believes that “the equitable delivery of goods and resources depends on the quality of leaders” and has championed the cause for morality and integrity in governance.

Politics

In 1997, in response to rising levels of corruption in government, he founded the National Christian Coalition, whose main objective was to educate and encourage men and women of morality to join politics. It was transformed into a political party, the National Citizens Coalition, in 1998. He contested the presidency of the Republic of Zambia in the 2001 elections and became the first senior member of the clergy in Zambia to become Vice President of the Republic of Zambia in 2003.

He later served as High Commissioner to Canada and the Caribbean Islands, where he was elected as the first Black President of the Ottawa Diplomatic Group. He has served as President of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy, the former ruling party of Zambia, and continues to lead Victory Ministries International with over fifty-two branch churches in Zambia.