Janet Banana
Janet Banana is the widow of Zimbabwe's first President, Canaan Banana, whom she married in 1961. She served as the first First Lady of Zimbabwe from 1980 until 1987. The couple had four children.
Due to a constitutional amendment, Canaan Banana was removed from the office of President, into which Prime Minister Robert Mugabe was instated. Despite her term as First Lady, Janet Banana has not received a pension from either Mugabe or his successor as President, Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Mrs. Banana sought political asylum in the United Kingdom in October 2000. She was awarded British citizenship in 2006, and took the oath of allegiance on 10 February 2006 at a ceremony in the London Borough of Haringey in front of the Mayor of Haringey.
