Programme Director, Your Excellency, President Hakainde Hichilema, Distinguished leaders of the Centre for Policy Dialogue and the Kenneth Kaunda Children of Africa Foundation,

Dear Members of the Kaunda family,

Comrades, ladies and gentlemen:

First of all, I would like to thank the Centre for Policy Dialogue and the Kenneth Kaunda Foundation for the honour extended to me to deliver this first Kenneth Kaunda Memorial Lecture.

I say this because as has been said, I had the great privilege of spending almost two decades in this great African city and country, constantly exposed to President Kaunda’s leadership. I am therefore acutely aware of the reality that I will be speaking today of an outstanding African patriot who was to the end of his life my own leader.

A few days after President Kaunda passed away, on 26 June 2021, one Emmanuel Mensah-Abludo, caused the publication in the Nigerian newspaper, Premium Times, of an Obituary entitled “Kenneth Kaunda: The last African Liberation Giant goes home”.

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