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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.
Jun 13, 2024 · 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 country’s president until 1991.
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.
Jun 17, 2021 · Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s first president and a founding patriarch of African independence who kept his grip on power for 27 years before enduring electoral defeat, an attempted assassination ...
Jun 17, 2021 · Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s first president and one of the last surviving leaders of Africa’s 20th-century struggles for liberation from colonial rule, has died aged 97.
Jun 17, 2021 · Former Zambian President and independence leader Kenneth Kaunda has died at the age of 97. His death was confirmed by Zambia’s current President Edgar Chagwa Lungu, who said in a Facebook post ...
Jun 17, 2021 · Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president and liberation hero, has died at a military hospital in the capital, Lusaka, where he was being treated for pneumonia. He was 97.
Jul 2, 2021 · A state memorial service for Zambia's first president, Kenneth Kaunda, has been held with a 21-gun salute and a flypast by the air force. Mr Kaunda died last month, aged 97, after suffering...
Jun 18, 2021 · Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president who has died aged 97, was a towering figure of African nationalism and the anti-colonial independence movement that swept the continent in the 20th ...
Jun 18, 2021 · Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's founding president and a champion of African nationalism who spearheaded the fights to end white minority rule across southern Africa, has died at the age of 97.