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 ...

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 ...

Speaking yesterday in the midst of a war with Iraq, former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda challenged his audience to consider another battle: the fight against AIDS. "There is another battle by ...

“I am sad to inform (members) we have lost Mzee. Let’s pray for him,” his son Kambarage wrote on Kaunda’s Facebook page. Earlier this week, Kaunda’s office announced in a statement that the former ...

Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977). He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the ...

LUSAKA, Zambia — 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. He was 97.

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