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Zambia Independency Day
October 16
On October 24, 1964, Zambia officially won its hard-fought independence, resulting in a national holiday falling on this day every year for the country to embrace its freedom and independence. Zambia celebrates its 60 years of independency this year.
Zambia’s path to independence was not easy. In 1888, when colonizers first came to Zambia, Cecil Rhodes, who signed a treaty obtaining Zambia’s mineral rights and subsequently suppressed any tribal uprisings, took Zambia under Great Britain’s control. The land became known as North-Western Rhodesia.