Zambia’s Guy Scott, Africa’s first white head of state in decades, dies at 82

Guy Scott, the Zambian politician who briefly served as acting president and became Africa's first white head of state in more than two decades, has died at age 82, according to the Zambian government. Scott died Wednesday at his farm in the capital, Lusaka. He served as Zambia's vice president and stood in as president for three months when Michael Sata died in office in 2014. That made Scott the first white head of state in Africa since South Africa's F.W. de Klerk, who left office after the country's first all-race elections in 1994. The government stated that current Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema had accorded Scott a state funeral, though the date was not yet announced. Scott, who had Scottish and English heritage, was first elected to Zambia's Parliament in 1991 and later served as minister of agriculture, food and fisheries before becoming vice president in 2011. He was the first white vice president of Zambia, and later its first white president, since independence from British colonial rule in 1964.

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Sources: abcnews.com