Edith Zewelani Nawakwi (born c. 1959) is a Zambian politician and economist by profession.
[3] In 2001, she and some ex-members of the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy formed the Forum for Democracy and Development where she served as the party's secretary-general and vice-president before she was elected party president in 2005, making her the first woman in Zambia to achieve such feat.
[4] In 2011, under the platform of the Forum for Democracy and Development, she was the only woman who contested in the 2011 general election, placing seventh on the log with a total of 6,833 votes.
[8] In 2016, she ran for the presidency at the 2016 general election where she placed third, receiving a total of 24,149 votes.
Her dumped body was found in a manhole in Ibex Hill with her hands and legs tied.