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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 .
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 Church of Zambia which Kaunda belonged. [1]
Zambia Shall Be Free is a 1962 political autobiography by Zambia's first president Kenneth Kaunda published as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series. [1] The biography is a critique of colonial rule, and the power of democracy in liberating the varied people ruled in the new Zambia.
Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (IATA: LUN, ICAO: FLKK) is an international airport located in Chongwe District, off the Great East Road, approximately 27 kilometres (17 mi) northeast of the city centre of Lusaka, the capital and largest city of Zambia. [4]
President Kaunda was the first democratically elected president of Zambia after the country gained independence from Britain in 1964. He served as an elder statesman for the African continent until he fell ill. Kaunda played an important role in serving Zambia, the Southern African region, and the rest of the continent. [1]
Upon independence and the renaming of the country as Zambia, Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda was elected as the first president. The office of Prime Minister was also abolished making the presidency an executive post. [4] Initially, the country would be governed as a multi-party democracy.
The more radical Kaunda broke away, and formed the Zambia African National Congress, which was banned in 1959. The NRANC won a single seat in the elections. In the 1962 general elections the party won seven seats, becoming the third-largest faction in the Legislative Assembly and held the balance of power.
Kaunda signed the necessary amendments into law in December. Soon afterward, the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy, a pressure group created earlier in the year under the leadership of Zambia Congress of Trade Unions chairman Chiluba, registered as a political party.