Kenneth Kaunda was a bad Zambian leader but a great ex-president

SOME LEADERS are born to greatness. Some rise to it in office. And some achieve it only after they have stepped down. One such was Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president, who died on June 17th at the age of 97.Mr Kaunda, the son of a Church of Scotland minister and a schoolteacher, first rose to prominence as a leader in the movement to win his country’s independence from Britain. Deeply religious, he led a mostly peaceful struggle that was influenced by the ideals of non-violent resistance espoused by Gandhi. In speeches and interviews before independence he urged reconciliation with Britain, which had jailed him twice.