• Maher Mezahi

On the this week's episode of the African Five-a-side podcast, we head to Zambia to name our final starter, an African president who actually liked football.

• Stephen McLoughlin
• Maartje Weerdesteijn

How Kenneth Kaunda was instrumental in guiding Zambia through its formative years in the absence of war or mass atrocities that blighted many of its neighbors.

• Andy DeRoche

The less well-known, and complicated, story of Kenneth Kaunda’s central role in relations between Zambia and the United States.

• Owen Sichone

Was the 27 years of Kaunda's rule better for Zambians than the neoliberal governments that have ruled there since his departure in 1991?

• Grieve Chelwa

In Zambians' hurry to get rid themselves of President Kenneth Kaunda, they lost their way in the process.

• Sean Jacobs

On the third Monday of January each year, Americans mark MLK's birthday with a public holiday. Africans should too.

• Laura Miti

Zambia - the country its young people fondly call “Zed” - turns 50 in 2014. It was part of the first wave of African countries to gain independence in the 1960s.

• Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

It is not hard to understand the iconic status of Nelson Mandela and the overflow of emotion his death has provoked in the Pan-African world.