LC control no. | n 80037605 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Kaunda, Kenneth D. (Kenneth David), 1924-2021 |
See also | Zambia. President (1964-1991 : Kaunda) |
Other standard no. | 52459 34469417 Q105480 0000000083709437 |
Associated country | Zambia Tanzania United States |
Birth date | 1924-04-28 |
Death date | 2021-06-17 |
Place of birth | Lubwa (Zambia) |
Place of death | Lusaka (Zambia) |
Affiliation | African National Congress Zambia African National Congress United National Independence Party (Zambia) |
Profession or occupation | Politicians Presidents |
Found in | His Zambia shall be free, 1963, c1962. Encyclopaedia Britannica online, June 16, 2016 (Kenneth Kaunda; Kenneth David Kaunda; b. April 28, 1924 in Lubwa near Chinsale, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia); taught in colonial Zambia and in Tanganyika; returned to Zambia in 1949, served as interpreter and adviser to Sir Stewart Gore-Browne; joined the African National Congress (ANC) that year, became its secretary-general in the early 1950s, then president of new Zambia African National Congress; elected president of United National Independence Party (UNIP) in 1960; led Zambia to independence in 1964, president until 1991; Balfour African President-in-Residence at Boston University, 2002-2004) Kenneth Kaunda, patriarch of African independence, is dead at 97, via New York times online, June 17, 2021 (Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's first president ... died on Thursday [June 17, 2021] in Lusaka, the nation's capital) <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/world/africa/kenneth-kaunda-patriarch-of-african-independence-is-dead-at-97.html> |
Associated language | eng |