Kaunda and Southern Africa

Stephen Chan was educated at the University of Auckland and was President of the New Zealand University Students’ Association before completing graduate work at Auckland and London University King’s College. He worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat, in London, Zimbabwe, while seconded to the Commonwealth Observer Group that oversaw the independence election campaign, and Zambia. He then joined the faculty of the University of Zambia and was twice Visiting Fellow at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford, and also Visiting Lecturer at Victoria University, Wellington. Since 1987, he has taught International Relations at the University of Kent and has also been Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. Professor Stephen Chan is foundation Dean of Law and Social Science and Professor of International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London

• Introduction; in search of Kaunda; a brief history of South African regional policy; Zambian foreign policy response; four images of Kaunda - towards and intellectual history of foreign policy; the fifth image - Kaunda as mediator; the comparative dimension - Kaunda and Mugabe; morality, power and the twisting path; a postscript - the end of it all. Appendices: a research note; the Lusaka manifesto (April 1969); address by the President Comrade Dr Kenneth David Kaunda at the opening of the 25th National Council of the United Nations Independence Party at Mulungushi International Conference Centre, September 24-29 1990.