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Kenneth Kaunda was the youngest of eight children. He was born at the Lubwa Mission Station in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia. His father was the Reverend David Kaunda, an ordained Church of Scotland missionary and teacher.
He attended Fort Hare University in South Africa, where many future African leaders were also to be found.
He was a teacher and Headmaster at Lubwa School from 1943 to 1947. He became secretary of the Northern Rhodesia African Congress in 1950 and was promoted to Secretary-General in 1953 when the organization was renamed the African National Congress (ANC). He broke from the ANC and formed the Zambia African National Congress (ZANC) in 1958. ZANC was banned in 1959Events January-February January 1 Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin. January 1 Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance January 2 CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Bac and Kaunda was arrested and imprisoned for a few months.
On his release he was made President of the newly formed United National Independence PartyThe United National Independence Party is a Zambian political party which governed that country from 1964 to 1991 under the presidency of Kenneth Kaunda. UNIP is currently led by Francis Nkhoma. Political parties by name U. (UNIP). Kaunda ran as a UNIP candidate during the 1962Events January January 1 Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand January 3 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro January 4 New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board January 8 Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is e elections. As Minister of Local Government and Social Welfare, Kaunda established himself as the most influential African in the government.
Following an electoral victory for the UNIP, Kaunda became prime minister on January 22January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 343 days remaining (344 in leap years). Events 1771 Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to England. 1824 Ashantis crush British forces in the Gold Coast. 1840 British, 1964. The BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly government, tired of civil disobedience, granted Zambia its independence on October 24October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. Events 69 Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces, 1964, and Kaunda then became president.
Becoming increasingly intolerant of opposition, Kaunda banned all parties except the UNIP following violence during the 1968 elections. In 1972, he made Zambia a one-party state.
His policies made Zambia increasingly dependent on revenues from copper exports. By the mid- 1980s, Kaunda's government had lost a great deal of public support due to corruption and an economic downturn. Pressure for a return to multiparty politics increased and Kaunda yielded and called for multiparty elections in 1991, in which the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) won. Kaunda left office with the inauguration of MMD leader Frederick Chiluba as president on November 2, 1991.
Chiluba had the constitution amended to prevent Kaunda from contesting the next elections in 1996, and Kaunda retired from politics after he was accused of involvement in a failed 1997 coup attempt.
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