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    Kenneth Kaunda

    First president of Zambia

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  1. Apr 24, 2024 · June 17, 2021, Lusaka, Zambia (aged 97) Title / Office: president (1964-1991), Zambia. Political Affiliation: African National Congress. Kenneth Kaunda (born April 28, 1924, Lubwa, near Chinsali, Northern Rhodesia [now Zambia]—died June 17, 2021, Lusaka, Zambia) was a politician who led Zambia to independence in 1964 and served as that ...

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  2. e. Kenneth Kaunda (28 April 1924 – 17 June 2021), [1] also known as KK, [2] 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. Dissatisfied with Harry Nkumbula 's leadership of the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress, he ...

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  4. Jun 17, 2021 · 17 June 2021. Former president of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, has passed away aged 97. Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's first president and one of the last of the generation of African leaders who fought ...

  5. 1989-01-01. Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the youngest of eight children. His father was a Minister and teacher who had left Malawi in 1904 and his mother was the first African woman to teach in colonial Zambia.

  6. Jun 18, 2021 · Last modified on Fri 16 Dec 2022 23.59 EST. The president of Zambia from 1964 to 1991, Kenneth Kaunda, who has died aged 97, stood out as one of the most humane and idealistic African leaders in ...

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  7. Jun 17, 2021 · Kenneth David Kaunda was born in Chinsali, Northern Zambia, on October 24 1924. Like so many of his generation of African liberation leaders, he came from a family of the mission-educated middle ...

  8. Kenneth Kaunda. Kenneth David Kaunda, (April 28, 1924 - June 17, 2021) served as the first president of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991. He played a major role in Zambia's independence movement which sought to free itself from Rhodesia and white minority rule. For his efforts, Kaunda suffered imprisonment and several confrontations with rival groups.

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