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 ...

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has urged Zambians to rise above division, embrace peace and serve one another with humility, care and purpose in honour of founding President Kenneth Kaunda.The President ...

Former Mines Minister under the United National Independence Party (UNIP) administration, Mulundwe Muzungu has praised Zambia ...

Luangwa District Commissioner, Luke Chikani yesterday led commemorations of Kenneth Kaunda Day, urging citizens especially ...

Several black Zambians tell the BBC they sometimes feel like they are second-class citizens in their own country.

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 ...

In July last year, on the back of social media speculation, the Democratic Alliance released a statement of condolence for the death of former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda. The problem was, he ...

President Obote, a leader who was popular with both Kaunda and President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania because of his verbal commitment to socialism and his authorship of “The Common Man’s Charter,” was ...