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Canaan Sodindo Banana (5 March 1936 – 10 November 2003) was a Zimbabwean Methodist minister, theologian, and politician who served as the first President of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987. He was Zimbabwe's first head of state (Ceremonial President) after the Lancaster House Agreement that led to the country’s independence.
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Canaan Sodindo Banana (5 de março de 1936 ― 10 de novembro de 2003) foi um ministro metodista, teólogo, professor, político e primeiro Presidente do Zimbábue de abril de 1980 até dezembro de 1987. Biografia. Banana nasceu em 1936 em Esiphezini na Rodésia do Sul.
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Zimbabwe's first post-independence president, Canaan Banana, who was jailed for sodomy, died yesterday of an undisclosed illness. Banana, 67, a former Methodist minister, was found guilty in...
The first president of independent Zimbabwe, the Rev Dr Canaan Banana, who has died aged 67, saw his reputation as one of Africa's leading statesmen eclipsed by his trial, conviction and ...
10 de nov. de 2003 · Zimbabwe's first black president, Canaan Banana, has died. Mr Banana - who held office from 1980 to 1987 - had been ill with cancer. He was also a former Methodist minister. Zimbabwe was...
30 de nov. de 2022 · Within a year, Banana was accused of eleven charges of sodomy, attempted sodomy, and indecent assault. Banana denied the charges, admitting that homosexuality was “deviant, abominable and wrong” and that the allegations made against him were lies and part of a plot intended to destroy his political career.
Canaan Sodindo Banana died something of a pariah in 2003 owing to the criminal conviction for “performing unnatural acts with men” or “sodomy” in 1999 (Gunda 2010:146). In his lifetime, controversy seemed to have taken a strong liking for the man (Chitando 2004:188), be it in his theological convictions and pronouncements or his lifestyle.
