Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda
April 1924 - June 2021
Kenneth Kaunda, fondly known as KK, was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali, then part of Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, and was the youngest of eight children. His father, the Reverend David Kaunda, was an ordained Church of Scotland missionary and teacher, who had been born in Nyasaland (now Malawi) and had moved to Chinsali, to work at Lubwa Mission. His mother was also a teacher and was the first African woman to teach in colonial Northern Rhodesia. They were both teachers among the Bemba ethnic group which is located in northern Zambia. His father died when Kenneth was a child. This is where Kenneth Kaunda received his education until the early 1940s. He later on followed in his parents' footsteps and became a teacher; first in Northern Rhodesia but then in the middle of the 1940s he moved to Tanganyika Territory (now part of Tanzania). He also worked in Southern Rhodesia.
Kenneth David Kaunda, former President of Zambia.
Early in his career, he read the writings of Mahatma Gandhi that he said: "went straight to my heart." Kaunda was a teacher at various schools. He went on to become the first Zambian President after British colonisation. After 27 years of leading the country, he passed on power to FTJ Chiluba in 1991. He died in June 2021 at the age of 97.
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