This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. Kenneth Kaunda was Zambia's first president. He led his country to independence from Great Britain and ruled Zambia for 27 years. He was often ...

Kenneth Kaunda, former president of Zambia, will be the first Balfour president to reside and work at Boston University for one year, after being appointed by the Boston University African ...

Former President Kenneth Kaunda died aged 97 at a military hospital in Lusaka where he was being treated for pneumonia. [Courtesy] President Uhuru Kenyatta has sent a message of condolence to ...

By Iddi Yire, GNA Special Correspondent in Lusaka, ZambiaLusaka, Feb 05, GNA – President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday laid a wreath at the tomb of Zambia’s Founding President, Dr Kenneth Kaunda, in ...

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president and a champion of African nationalism who spearheaded the fights to end white minority rule across southern Africa, has died at the ...

On Tuesday, November 28, Kenya's parliament made a controversial decision to prohibit the wearing of the Kaunda suit and African traditional attire. The Kaunda suit, named after the late Zambian ...

The burial of Zambia's founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, started on Wednesday despite a court challenge by one of his sons against his burial site. Kaunda ruled Zambia from 1964, when the southern ...

Would the shock waves of East African revolt move inland to plague the wobbly governments of other territories? One vulnerable region was Northern Rhodesia, which is due to get its independence by ...