He worked closely with leading nonviolent activists, including political leader Rev. From prisoner to party leader to president, Kaunda’s rise to state power was nothing short of meteoric - an especially unusual feat for an avowed pacifist!ĭuring the few years between the jail cell and the presidential mansion, Kaunda traveled to the United States to meet with Dr. The Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa had threatened to launch an international mass mobilization and pressured the colonial powers to ultimately succumb to the demands of Zambia’s United National Independence Party and their leader, Kenneth Kaunda. In Zambia, after almost a century of largely nonviolent struggle, independence leaders successfully wrested their nation from colonial control, transforming the British colony of Northern Rhodesia into an early example of the power of positive action.
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