Zambia’s founding president and liberation hero, Kenneth Kaunda, has died, aged 97, at a military hospital in the capital, Lusaka, where he was being treated for pneumonia. Kaunda ruled Zambia from 1964, when the country won its independence from Britain, until 1991, and afterwards became one
Zambia’s founding father, Kenneth Kaunda, has died aged 97. Kaunda’s son, Kamarange Kaunda, gave the news of the statesman’s death on Thursday. “I am sad to inform we have lost Mzee,” Kaunda’s son wrote, using a Swahili term of respect for an elder. “Let’s pray for him.” Kaunda had been admitted to the hospital on […]