Edmund Zuwanie

Dr. Edmund Zuwanie is the main antagonist of the film The Interpreter. He is the president of the fictional African country of Matobo. Initially a liberator, over the past 20 years he has become as corrupt and tyrannical as the government he overthrew, and is now responsible for ethnic cleansing and other atrocities within Matobo, so terrible that the United Nations is considering indicting him in front of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

In order to avoid indictment, he excercises his right to speak in front of the UN General Assembly, and secretly organizes an "almost assassination" with members of his security detail, to make his acts look like justified actions against terrorism. This become the central plot point for the entire film.

In the film, he is portrayed by Earl Cameron.