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ANC

Zambia · Politics / African National Congress. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1951–1959Date range
1Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1951

Kenneth David Kuanda1951

Politics / African National Congress

Appointed Organising Secretary of the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress for Northern Province

1958

Kenneth David KuandaOctober 1958

Politics / Zambian African National Congress

Kaunda breaks from the ANC and forms the Zambian African National Congress (ZANC)

1959

Kenneth David KuandaOctober 1959

Politics / Zambian African National Congress

While Kaunda is in prison, Mainza Chona and other nationalists break away from the ANC and, in October 1959, Chona becomes the first President of the United National Independence Party (UNIP), the successor to ZANC

Names involved

Kenneth David Kuanda

Provenance

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