Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia: Selections from His Writings [Inscribed by the Editor]

New York: Frederick A. Praeger for the Africa Service Institute of New York, 1964. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Pale yellow-green cloth in white dust jacket; [xiv],254pp. Inscribed by the editor. A tight, straight copy, lightly sunned at spine, discoloration to front joint, minor discoloration to front endpapers, else clean and firm: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed and spine-sunned with minor external soil, foxing to verso: Very Good.

Kenneth Kaunda (1924-2021) was at the head of Zambia's struggle for independence from British rule. He became the first President of independent Zambia in 1964, the year this book was published. The work includes excerpts from his autobiography, first published as Zambia Shall Be Free, as well as major addresses of the early 1960s. This copy was inscribed in 1964 to J. Wayne Fredericks, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, from 1961-67, by the editor Thomas Melady: "To Wayne who did very much to bring the Zambian people to the dignity of a free state." [62113].