biography
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Kaunda, Kenneth (David)
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pronunciation:
[kaoonda]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1924– )
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| biography:
| Zambian statesman and president (1964–91), born in Lubwa, N Zambia. He became a teacher in Zambia and Tanganyika (Tanzania), then joined the African National Congress, becoming its secretary-general, and in 1958 founding a development of this organization, the Zambian African National Congress. He was subsequently imprisoned, and the movement banned. Elected president of the United National Independent Party (1960), he played a leading part in his country's independence negotiations, and became the first president of the country. After a failed military coup in 1990, he agreed to multi-party elections in 1991; but lost the presidency to Frederick Chiluba, leader of the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy. Following a failed coup attempt in the country in 1997, in which he denied his involvement, he was placed under house arrest and barred from political activities. |
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