PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema is right to remind the country that Kenneth Kaunda Day is not just another date on the calendar but a moment to reflect on the values of unity, service and peace which Zambia’s founding president embodied. Dr Kenneth Kaunda was not merely the first man to occupy State House. He was the chief architect of a national idea. At independence, he inherited a country of many languages, tribes and regional identities, any of which could have been manipulated into division and conflict. Instead, he insisted on a simple but powerful creed: One Zambia, One Nation. That motto was not accidental. It was a deliberate political project. Kaunda understood that a young country like ours could not survive...
