REST IN PEACE KENNETH KAUNDA

SMART FOCUS MEDIA MOURNS THE OUR FREEDOM FIGHTER AND ZAMBIAN FIRST PRESIDENT DR KENNETH KAUNDA BORN 28 APRIL, 1924 DIED 17 JUNE 2021 . BRIEF LIFE HISTORY Kenneth David Kaunda (28 April 1924 – 17 June 2021), also known as KK , was a Zambian politician who served as the first President of Zambia from 1964 to 1991. Kaunda was the youngest of eight children born to an ordained Church of Scotland missionary and teacher, an immigrant from Malawi. He was at the forefront of the struggle for independence from British rule . Dissatisfied with Harry Nkumbula 's leadership of the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress , he broke away and founded the Zambian African National Congress , later becoming the head of the United National Independence Party (UNIP). He was the first President of the independent Zambia. In 1973 following tribal and inter-party violence, all political parties except UNIP...