Kenneth Kaunda
Noun
Meaning
statesman who led Northern Rhodesia to full independence as Zambia in 1964 and served as Zambia's first president (1924-1999)
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Examples
A true pan-African, together with compatriots, Amilcar Cabral, Kwame Nkrumah, Kenneth Kaunda, Julius Nyerere, and Samora Machel, you internationalised the liberation struggle, inspiring an entire continent to demand self- determination from colonial rule.
It’s only Kenneth Kaunda, Sikota Wina and Aaron Milner now remaining.
An instance of sadness defining a powerful individual came in Zambia when the country’s founding father Kenneth Kaunda was defeated in presidential elections by an idealistic Frederick Chiluba.
And Zambia’s first president, Kenneth Kaunda has said Africa’s journey to prosperity needs prudent and decisive decisions for the continent to attain sustainable economic and social development.
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has directed that Lusaka lawyer Dr Rodger Chongwe be paid approximately US $5.9 million as compensation for the 1997 Kabwe police shooting in which the latter and former Republican president Dr Kenneth Kaunda were injured.
Northern Rhodesia became the Republic of Zambia on 24 October 1964, with Kenneth Kaunda as the first president.