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Kenneth Kaunda (28 April 1924 – 17 June 2021), also known as KK, was a Zambian politician who served as the first president of Zambia from 1964 to 1991. He was at the forefront of the struggle for independence from British rule .
Jun 17, 2021 · The son of a Malawian immigrant preacher David Kaunda, who settled in northern Zambia in the early 1900s, President Kaunda was highly regarded by Zambians and still taken as one of their own, even when he suffered the humiliation of having been declared stateless by his successor, Frederick Chiluba.
May 31, 2024 · Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian politician who led Zambia to independence in 1964 and served as that country’s president until 1991. He is revered as the country’s founding president and as a hero of African liberation. Read here to learn more about the life of Kenneth Kaunda.
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Jun 17, 2021 · Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's first president and one of the last of the generation of African leaders who fought colonialism, has died aged 97. Kaunda was admitted to a military hospital in the ...
Kaunda married Betty Banda in 1946, with whom he had eight children. She died on September 17, 2013, aged 87, while visiting one of their daughters in Harare, Zimbabwe. Independence struggle. Location of Northern Rhodesia, today called Zambia.
Jul 6, 2021 · As Zambia’s founding president Kenneth Kaunda, who has died aged 97, was an idealist and a visionary who played a key role in supporting African nationalism.
Kenneth Kaunda, the first President of Zambia, died on 17 June 2021 at Mina Soko Medical Centre in Lusaka. The government announced a 21-day mourning period. During the mourning period Kaunda's body was taken around all 10 provincial towns and in each provincial capital, and a short church ceremony was conducted by the Military and the United ...
