Born: 1978 (circa), Zambia
Died: NA
Country most active: Zambia
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from Women Architects Worldwide: Building a Diverse and Inclusive Canon by Aubree Tillett, edited by Aubree Tillett and Jess Ilias, an open-access Pressbook designed to uplift the names of women architects from almost every country and territory around the world. This entry is shared in line with the Creative Commons licensing.
Born in Ndola, Zambia, Mwangala Mwenda Lethbridge is the founder of Mwangala Mwenda Architects in Lusaka, Zambia, and the founder of the Mwangala Mwenda Foundation, a non-profit that supports education for girls and empowers women in Zambia. She holds a bachelor’s of architecture from Copperbelt University in Kitwe, Zambia (c. 1996); a master’s of architecture in human settlements from the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Belgium (c. 1999); and a master’s of business administration from the Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester in Manchester, England (c. 2019). She is a member of the Zambia Institute of Architects. Mwangala Mwenda Lethbridge published a memoir titled Still Standing: The Flip Side of Denial, Depression, and Forgiveness (2022).
References
“Charity Events in Zambia.” Mwangala Mwenda Foundation, accessed March 4, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20250218134209/https://mwangalamwendafoundation.org/charity-events/.
Lethbridge, Mwangala. LinkedIn, accessed March 4, 2024. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mwangala-lethbridge-402b5020/?originalSubdomain=zm.
“Zambia Institute of Architects Honours Women in Architecture.” Zambia Institute of Architects, accessed March 4, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20230923104945/http://zia.org.zm/zambia-institute-of-architects-honours-women-in-architecture/.