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Kenneth Kaunda, president of Zambia, during his official visit to Sweden in September 1971. (Photo by Stringer/ Pressens Bild/AFP)
BIAFRA

Kenneth Kaunda: The man behind the statesman

Zambia’s founding father left a lasting legacy

  • Alex Vines
8 min read
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s “founding father” and first president, has died in a military hospital in Lusaka where he was being treated for pneumonia. (Photo by Vladimir Akimov / Sputnik / Sputnik via AFP)
CHINSALI

Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda was the last of Africa’s ‘philosopher kings’

The liberation legend died on Thursday at a military hospital in Lusaka, aged 97

  • Nic Cheeseman
  • Sishuwa Sishuwa
7 min read