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Arrest of Kenneth David Kuanda

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

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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

Kenneth David Kuanda1959

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. Kaunda is sentenced to nine months imprisonment, which he spent first in Lusaka, then in Salisbury (Harare)

Names involved

Kenneth David Kuanda

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