Kenneth Kaunda is considered one of Africa's pioneers of liberation movements. He lived in an era when British colonialism controlled most of the African continent, particularly his homeland. After the struggle and liberation movement that he led to rid Zambia of British colonialism and liberate it politically, what preoccupied him in the first place was to liberate it economically as well. Kaunda was fully aware that colonialism did not end, as it remained deeply rooted in the Zambian state's liberation. For his country, he had to choose the economic system. With the spread of socialism on the African continent, it was natural for Zambia, which suffered from imperialism and colonial capitalism, to move away from all these systems. Thus, Kaunda chose a socialist system, which was inconsistent with what existed in Zambia during the colonial era. It is a system hostile to imperialism and colonial capitalism, a challenge to the new economic colonialism represented by foreign companies in the land of Zambia. Kaunda did not just turn to socialism. Rather, he went further than that, as he developed many principles under human philosophy, in which he focused on human dignity and self-respect, societal values, and the development of a human-centered society. These are principles that Kaunda derived from his Christian religious upbringing, and from here, he combined socialism with his humanistic philosophy to complete the system that Kaunda wanted for the new Republic of Zambia.
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