The Martha s Vineyard Times
Leonard Tawayena Kapungu, 80, of Chinyabowa, Zimbabwe, passed away on April 20, 2021, in his home in Oak Bluffs.
Leonard was born on August 23, 1940, to Muchawira and Teresa Kapungu in Nyanga, Zimbabwe. After graduating from Kutama High School, he went on to study political science at the University of Rhodesia. As a refugee in Botswana and Zambia, he was offered a full scholarship to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, and then completed his doctorate at the London School of Economics. After years of teaching as a professor in the U.S., he joined the United Nations, where he had a 35-year vibrant career, traveling to more than 40 countries, where he passionately advocated for countries that were in turmoil and needed to be independent, including his country, Zimbabwe.