Thokozile Muwamba (born 1993) is a Zambian pilot. In 2017, she became the first female fighter pilot in Zambia.[1] In her first year of study at Zambia's Copperbelt University, she quit to join the country's military in 2012. A few years later, she became a beneficiary of a Zambia Air Force project to introduce females into the male dominated field in 2015. She currently holds the rank of second lieutenant in the Zambia Air Force.[2][3][4][5]

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  1. ^ "'An aircraft knows no sex'". BBC News. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  2. ^ Gova-Media (2017-10-24). "Thokozile Muwamba: Zambia's first female fighter pilot". Gova-Media. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  3. ^ Africa, This Is (2017-01-11). "Meet Second Lieutenant Thokozile Muwamba, Zambia's first female fighter pilot". This is africa. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  4. ^ AfricaNews (2017-09-26). "[Photos] Thokozile Muwamba: Zambia's first female fighter pilot in action". Africanews. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  5. ^ "24-Year-Old Thokozile Muwamba Is Zambia's First Female Fighter Pilot". Konbini - All Pop Everything! (in French). Retrieved 2019-10-28.
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