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1977—

Activist

Though Princess Kasune Zulu is not technically a member of Zambian royalty, she has emerged as one of Africa's most prominent activists in combating the scourge of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS.

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Both of Zulu's parents and two of her siblings were felled by the deadly pandemic, which has swept swiftly through sub-Saharan Africa since it was first discovered in the early 1980s, and she herself has tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, the predictor for AIDS. "I'm already infected and there's nothing I can do about that, but I know I can still do something," she said of her mission in an interview with Kevin Spurgaitis of the Catholic New Times. "I am the example and can say, 'I don't want you to become like me.

I want you to live a full life. I don't want you to die prematurely.'"

Zulu was born in 1977 in Kabwe, a city in Zambia's Central Province, and given the first name "Princess." Her family was Contemporary Black Biography - Princeton University COBIL