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Peggy Mulambya-Kabonde is a Zambian feminist theologian, scholar, and professor.

Life
Peggy Mulambya-Kabonde is a pastoral minister with the Methodist and United Reformed Churches in the United Kingdom and an ordained minister in the United Church in Zambia. She was married to Fred Kabonde until his death in 2020.

Education and career
Kabonde has a Ph.D. in Gender and Theology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. She is the Southern Africa Coordinator of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, an organization she joined in 1989. She was a professor at the United Church of Zambia Theological University. She also served as the chaplain at the University of Zambia interdenominational church and the Ecumenical and Engagement officer on campus. As of early 2018, she was the first female General Secretary of the United Church in Zambia.

Kabonde's research interests include gender justice, gender and leadership in the church, theology about gender and ecology, and "the inclusivity of all God’s creation". Her theology surrounding the "transforming gender equalities in the era of HIV/AIDS" has been called "most articulate". According to the United Church of Canada, "Kabonde has a long and abiding interest in gender justice issues in church and society and has been involved with many organizations working with these, and other social justice issues in Africa and globally".