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Kenneth Kaunda - Zambia's founding father President Kenneth Kaunda has died in hospital in Lusaka where he was being treated for pneumonia. He led the Southern African country from 1964 to 1991 and was seen as one of the giants of Africa's liberation struggles. ´óÏó´«Ã½ Newsday heard from Trevor Hambayi, Senior Managing Partner, Development Finance Associates in Lusaka.

“He united a country with more than 72 different tribal groups into one country. He had the philosophy of ‘One Zambia, One Nation’. He contributed greatly to the liberation struggle of southern Africa with the country hosting a lot of the liberation struggle leaders in the 1960s and 1970s – Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, also political leaders from Mozambique, Angola and Namibia."

(Pic: Kenneth Kaunda; Credit: EPA)