Biography of president kenneth kaunda dead

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    Kenneth Kaunda

    Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 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 and his mother was the first African woman to teach in colonial Zambia. Initially, the young Kaunda followed in his mother’s footsteps, becoming boarding master and then headmaster at Lubwa Mission from to He worked at Salisbury (which is now Harare), at the 'Salisbury Bindura Mines'. In became a teacher in Mufulira, for the United Missions to the Copperbelt. But he soon began to show an active interest in politics. In he returned to Lubwa to become a part-time teacher, but resigned in and became Organising Secretary for nordlig Rhodesia of the: 'Northern Rhodesian African National Congress.'
    In he moved to Lusaka, to take up the post of sekreterare General. In , Kaunda broke from the or

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    Death and state funeral of Kenneth Kaunda

    July state funeral in Zambia

    Kenneth Kaunda, the first President of Zambia, died on 17 June at Mina Soko Medical Centre in Lusaka. The government announced a 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 Church of Zambia which Kaunda belonged.[1] The state funeral took place on 2 July. Due to the COVID restrictions attendance was strictly by invitation.[2][3] The funeral service was broadcast on national TV networks in Zambia, South Africa and around the region.[4] Several African countries had declared an official period of national mourning. Zimbabwe declared fourteen days of mourning;[5]South Africa declared ten days of mourning;[6]Botswana,[7]Malawi,[8]Namibia[9] and Tanzania[9]

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    Kenneth Kaunda

    President of The Republic of Zambia from to

    Kenneth Kaunda (28 April – 17 June ),[1] also known as KK,[2] was a Zambian politician who served as the first president of Zambia from to He was at the forefront of the struggle for independence from British rule. Dissatisfied with Harry Nkumbula's leadership of the nordlig Rhodesian African National Congress, he broke away and founded the Zambian African National Congress, later becoming the head of the socialist United National Independence Party (UNIP).

    Kaunda was the first president of independent Zambia. In , following tribal and inter-party violence, all political parties except UNIP were banned through an amendment of the constitution after the signing of the Choma Declaration. At the same time, Kaunda oversaw the acquisition of majority stakes in key foreign-owned companies. The oil crisis and a slump in export revenues put Zambia in a state of economic crisis. International pressure