(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017) Kalusa, Wilima T.
Informed by recent scholarship that underscores the centrality of death ,corpse and funerals in contemporary African politics,this article explores the ways in which the actors in the ruling movement for multi-party Democracy (MMD) and the opposition Patriotic Front (PF) in Zambia appropriated the corpse and legacy of president levy Mwanawasa to mobilize political support in 2008.