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For a long time, I have led my people in the shouts of KWACHA (the dawn). We have been shouting it in the darkness, now there is the Grey light of dawn on the horizon and I know that Zambia Shall be Free!

— Kenneth Kaunda Zambia Shall Be Free (1962)

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