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'''''Zambia Shall Be Free''''' is a 1962 political autobiography by Zambia's first president [[Kenneth Kaunda]] that was published as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|title = Zambia Shall be Free|url = http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/62/247/170|journal = African Affairs|date = 1963-04-01|issn = 0001-9909|pages = 170–171|volume = 62|issue = 247|language = en|first = D.|last = S}}</ref> The biography is a critique of colonial rule, and the power of democracy in liberating the varied people ruled in the new [[Zambia]].<ref name=":0" />

The contemporary journal reviewer for ''African Affairs'' called the work a "haphazard sketch of the victorious approach of [[Northern Rhodesia]] to emancipation".<ref name=":0" /> The reviewer called the narrative "polemical" and "factually unreliable".<ref name=":0" /> ''The Journal of Modern African Studies'' reviewer J.G. Markham was more sympathetic, reading the biography as a strong understanding of Kaunda's development of his political career, and highlighting the tension between Kaunda's participation in violence in the Zambia African Congress and his subsequent justification of that violence in seeking independence.<ref name =JMAS>{{Cite journal|url = http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=2461140&fileId=S0022278X00001993|title = Reviews: Zambia Shall be Free by Kaunda Kenneth London, Heinemann, 1962. Pp. 202. 12s. 6d.|last = Markhama|first = J. G.|date = September 1963|journal = The Journal of Modern African Studies|doi = 10.1017/S0022278X00001993|pmid = |access-date = |volume = 1|issue = 3|pages = 421-423|jstor = 158939}}</ref>

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==Further reading ==
* {{Cite web|title = ''Political Science Quarterly'': June 1964: Review: ''Zambia Shall be Free''. Africa Unbound: Reflections of an African Statesman.|url = https://www.psqonline.org/article.cfm?IDArticle=7767|website = www.psqonline.org|access-date = 2016-02-17}}

[[Category:Autobiographies]]
[[Category:1962 books]]
[[Category:African Writers Series]]
[[Category:Political autobiographies]]
[[Category:Zambia]]