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Freedom Statue

Picture of the Freedom Statue along Independence Avenue in Lusaka represents our freedom earned with sweat and blood, sometimes literally. Zanco Mpundu Mutembo, the flesh behind the stone, the statue represents his life cause On December 31 1963, Zanco was ordered to break the symbolic shackles or get shot. Mutembo was born in 1936 in Mbala. He and his twin brother, Arnold, got involved in the political struggle against the colonialists in Northern Province at the age of 18 in 1954.

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