In 1964, Kenneth Kaunda became president-designate of Zambia, formerly Northern Rhodesia.

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He eagerly tells us that during the 1930s and 1940s European Jews fled persecution and found not only safe haven in Zambia (then called Northern Rhodesia) but prosperity.

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When Victoria sanctioned the concept, Rhodes led thousands of white settlers into the areas now known as Zambia and Zimbabwe (Northern and Southern Rhodesia, respectively), eventually uniting them under his British South Africa Company.

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In 1952 Mr Nkomo came to London to discuss the formation of a Central African federation of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, all then tied to Britain, and now, respectively, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

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