Zambia Shall Be Free
Zambia
Shall Be Free is a 1962 political autobiography
by Zambia's first president Kenneth Kaunda that was published as part of the Heinemann African
Writers Series. The biography is a critique of
colonial rule, and the power of democracy in liberating the varied people ruled
in the new Zambia.
The
contemporary journal reviewer for African
Affairs called the work a "haphazard
sketch of the victorious approach of Northern
Rhodesia to emancipation". The reviewer
called the narrative "polemical" and "factually
unreliable". The Journal of Modern African Studies reviewer J.G.
Markham was more sympathetic, reading the biography as a strong understanding
of Kaunda's development of his political career, and highlighting the tension
between Kaunda's participation in violence in the Zambia African Congress and his
subsequent justification of that violence in seeking independence.
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