![]() ![]() "Often as I travel around our country, I look from the windows of my car or gaze at the assembled crowds who come to greet me and hear me speak. He writes about real-life happenings with the magical touch of fiction: One of his most poignant books is Letter to My Children (1977) in which he lays out his vision for the country he would like to bequeath his children. I was born in 1924 at Lubwa in the hills of the watershed between the great Luangwa and Chambezi rivers". ![]() In his book, Zambia Shall Be Free (1962), he writes that, "My parents gave me the name Buchizya, meaning 'the unexpected one', for I was born in their twentieth year of their marriage, the eighth in the line of children, three of who died young. One thing going for him and why he won't be soon forgotten is that he was a writer. Mr Kaunda was lured by politics and was elected the first president of Zambia in 1964. ![]()
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