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Article: Zambia. (Country Profile).
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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THE wind of change that swept through the world with the fall of communism carried Zambia briefly to centre stage. The country was hailed as one of Africa's new dynamic democracies when it reintroduced multi-party politics in 1991 after 27 years of domineering one-party rule by the man who had led it to independence from Britain, Kenneth Kaunda. Like all the other African leaders who emerged at that time, Frederick Chiluba and his Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) represented a change from the left-leaning old guard, promising economic liberalization and political reform.
Over the next 10 years the euphoria died and Zambia all but disappeared from the map, ...