Zambia Quotes
In the 1980's there were many calls for sanctions against South Africa and its policy of apartheid. These calls were loudest by the black African states including President Kenneth Kuanda of Zambia. However, the nationally owned Zambia Airways established special service from South Africa to other parts of the world when many other nations cut off air service to and from South Africa:
The conference to which he referred was the 1884 Berlin Conference where the European powers carved up Africa into colonial empires. He continued to attribute the difficulties of the African nations to the vestiges of colonialism over a century later. In addition to the effect of colonialism, however, it was he who after being elected popularly, established a one party autocracy, where there was never a chance thereafter to vote for anyone else. It was he who introduced Communist style socialism which ruined the Zambian economy. And it was he who tolerated the corruption that, after independence, spread throughout the country and plagues so much of Africa.
This is perhaps a situation that has existed in every country ever where the press was not controlled.
