Snippets from the Audio Archive III - Kenneth Kaunda and Ruth Weiss

02/07/2021 9 min Episodio 11
Snippets from the Audio Archive III - Kenneth Kaunda and Ruth Weiss

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Kenneth Kaunda (1924–2021) was the first State President of independent Zambia. On March 30, 1977 Ruth Weiss conducted an interview with Kaunda in Lusaka on the occasion of the visit of Nikolai Podgorny, then President of the Soviet Union. In this extract from the interview, Kaunda provides an assessment of the Cold War situation in southern Africa, Zambia’s position as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and the supportive role of the Soviet Union for Zambia.

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