KENNETH KAUNDA
(Kenneth David Kaunda)
The conference to which he referred was the 1884 Berlin Conference where the European powers carved up Africa into colonial empires. He continued to attribute the difficulties of the African nations to the vestiges of colonialism over a century later. In addition to the effect of colonialism, however, it was he who after being elected popularly, established a one party autocracy, where there was never a chance thereafter to vote for anyone else. It was he who introduced Communist style socialism which ruined the Zambian economy. And it was he who tolerated the corruption that, after independence, spread throughout the country and plagues so much of Africa.
Kenneth David Kaunda, also known as KK, is a Zambian former politician who served as the first President of Zambia from 1964 to 1991.
