While a teacher he read the works of the Indian Nationalist, Mahatma Ghandi which he said in a later interview had a profound influence on him.Īt barely 25 in 1949, he joined partisan politics when he became a founding member of the Northern Rhodesian African National Congress. Kaunda taught not only in his native Zambia but also in Tanzania and the then Southern Rhodesia now Zimbabwe. Ghana’s Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah and Zimbabwe’s Robert Gabriel Mugabe were trained by the Roman-Catholic Church. Like many African nationalists, he was trained by the missionaries – in his case the Scottish missionaries. The last born of the family, he must have been influenced to become a teacher by his parents. His parents from the Bemba ethnic group were both teachers with his mother being the first female to teach in the then colonial Zambia.
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