The H.K. Mandona Legacy Foundation
Lt. Col. Humphrey
Kingston Mandona (Rtd)
21 April 1948 – 1 January 2023
“He was not a man who carried ideas lightly.
He carried them as responsibility.”
“Arise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will make your horns iron
and your hooves bronze, and you will break to pieces many nations.
You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the Lord,
their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.”
My father spent the last decade of his life writing. Not casually — systematically. A complete economic and spiritual framework for African development. A clan-based model of national transformation. An interest-free banking system rooted in biblical economics. Seven registered patents. Theological writings of unusual depth and precision.
He believed that what he saw was not for himself, but for others. He did not live to see it published. The H.K. Mandona Legacy Foundation exists to ensure it is not lost.
Formation
A Life Built for a Purpose
Humphrey Kingston Mandona was born in Ndola, Zambia in 1948. He attended Chiwala Secondary School and sat his Cambridge O Levels in 1967 — the year Zambia was barely three years into independence. Within the year he was in Canada, training as a military officer at the Canadian Forces School of Administration and Logistics.
He qualified as an automotive engineer at the College of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering in Chelsea, London — earning First Class passes in both the practical and theoretical sections. He rose to Lieutenant Colonel in the Zambian Army, served as Director of the national Mechanical Services Department by appointment of the President, and later served as General Manager and Chief Executive of one of Zambia’s largest motor vehicle companies.
In August 1983, he was born again. He recorded it on his professional CV between his date of birth and his address — as matter-of-factly as his nationality. From that point forward, his faith and his professional formation ran as one.
He studied cross-cultural management in Japan, completed senior leadership training at Henley Management College in England, and attended the Cranfield University Disaster Preparedness Centre. He brokered international manufacturing partnerships between Japan, Holland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. He was a man always in motion — always being prepared for the next assignment.
“The Blueprint is what you get when all of that formation is placed in service of a single question: what does this nation need, and how do we build it from what we already have?”
He spent the rest of his life answering it.
The Mandona Blueprint
A Framework for a Nation
At the heart of Lt. Col. Mandona’s work is a conviction that genuine national development cannot be imported. It must grow from within — from the clan, the land, the community, and the God who placed them there.
His framework addresses development across four interconnected areas:
The Clan as Economic Unit
The clan — not the individual or the nuclear family — is the only social group capable of providing all five levels of human need sustainably. It is the foundation of every economy he envisioned.
Land as Primary Capital
Every citizen, through their clan, must have access to land. Agriculture and mining are the primary industries of any nation. All other industries flow from them. Land is not a commodity — it is inheritance held in trust.
FIALA Kingdom Banking
An interest-free, collateral-free micro-banking system rooted in the biblical principles of jubilee and agape love — a just alternative to conventional lending, designed for families and clans.
IGTD & Formation
The Institute for God Tempered Development — his vehicle for clan education, career formation, enterprise development, and the twelve-step pipeline from manual labour to entrepreneurship.
A Life in Documents
The Record He Left Behind
Lt. Col. Mandona kept everything. His papers include original certificates, signed agreements, patent filings, prophetic documents addressed to heads of state, agricultural programme proposals, and multiple versions of his development masterwork. He understood that a life of preparation should leave a record.
Now Published
Issues of National Development
The Mandona Blueprint
Written over the final decade of his life and published for the first time in 2026, this book presents Lt. Col. Mandona’s complete framework for African development — his voice, his arguments, his vision, preserved and edited by his daughter Eva-Marie. Part biography. Part economic blueprint. Part theological foundation. Entirely his.
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A Daughter’s Commission
I am Eva-Marie — his daughter, and the custodian of this legacy.
When my father died on 1 January 2023, he left behind a body of work that had never been fully seen. Documents spanning fifty years. Patents, frameworks, prophetic letters, theological writings, business plans, agricultural programmes. All of it written with the discipline of a man who believed he was accountable — not to a publisher or an institution, but to God and to Zambia.
My work has been to gather it, to read it carefully, to honour its voice, and to bring it into the light. The H.K. Mandona Legacy Foundation is the formal expression of that commission. It is not a monument to a man. It is a platform for a vision that was always intended to outlive him.
“This book is not mine. It is the preserved work of my father — written over years of thought, conviction, and belief in the future of Zambia and the African continent. My role has been to gather, organise, and present these writings faithfully, so that they may be read as they were intended.”
The foundation is in its early stages. The book is published. The archive is built. The next steps — formal registration, programme development, partnerships — will follow in due course, as clarity, stability, and capacity allow. What matters now is that the work exists, and that it can be found.
Connect with the Legacy
If you are moved by this vision — whether as a researcher, a development practitioner, a Kingdom entrepreneur, or simply someone who recognises what this man was building — we would be glad to hear from you.
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