Word: kaunda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people and virtually no resources except its brilliant but megalomaniacal leader Dr. Banda. Northern Rhodesia, which will obtain full independence next fall as the state of Zambia, is loaded with mineral wealth, and its copper represents one of Africa's most profitable exports. Moderate Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party seems certain to sweep the territorial elections set for Jan. 20, but Kaunda is already facing terrorist opposition from the African National Congress, led by hard-drinking Harry Nkumbula and by members of the Lumpa church, a militant African sect headed by a 39-year-old self...
...time Welensky checked into the Hyde Park Hotel, Nationalist Kenneth Kaunda, top African leader in Northern Rhodesia, had already attended his first meeting with Britain's Deputy Prime Minister R. A. Butler to decide the fu ture course of Central Africa. Of rambunctious Sir Roy, Kaunda sneered, "We are here to rob him of his job. You might make him Lord Broken Reed." With Rab Butler, Kaunda and his fellow nationalist, Harry Nkumbula, argued for two hours Northern Rhodesia's right to secede, and asked why their country should be considered "the Cinderella of Central Africa." When Butler...
...black government in Northern Rhodesia will hardly be able to tell the difference. The Northern Rhodesian blacks already have threatened to sever economic ties unless Southern Rhodesia broadens its voting franchise and releases the African nationalists who have been placed under restriction. Otherwise, cried Nationalist Leader Kenneth Kaunda, "we will set up a tariff wall at the Zambezi and let the Southern Rhodesians eat the blankets they manufacture...
...election day, voters had to dip their left thumb in a bottle of indelible red ink to prevent repeat performances. Even without repeats, the popular winner by far was Nationalist Kenneth Kaunda, 38, whose United National Independence Party drew 65,000 votes with its slogan, "Kwacha!" (Dawn), and its appeal for more black power. But Kaunda won only 14 seats, and Welensky's United Federal Party, with one-third of the votes, won 15. The African National Congress of roisterous Harry Nkumbula, Kaunda's ex-mentor, won five seats. Ten seats were left vacant because too few voters...
Long Run. With no majority, British-appointed Governor Sir Evelyn Hone refused to form a government, preferring to wait until a special election for the empty seats is held Dec. 10. But in the long run, the big winner will probably be Kaunda, a teetotaling advocate of Gandhian nonviolence whose straight-up hairdo gives him the look of a man permanently frightened by a ghost. With his huge plurality, he can legitimately claim a mandate for a new constitution guaranteeing more power to the blacks, and he aims to do just that. "Our first goal," he says, "is stable government...