 Now, mourners of wave-in-white handkerchiefs, Kenneth's counter-straight-max symbol, gathered at the Lusaka Stadium for a state memorial service for Zambia's force president, who died last month at the age of seventy, ninety-seven, rather. A neatly distant and compliant with covered social distancing rules, scores of mourners stood on the terraces, dancing to dirges and solar music played by a military band. A hero of the struggle against white rule in South Africa, Kaounde died on the seventeenth of June at the military hospital where he had been admitted with pneumonia. He always carried a white handkerchief, an item that he said symbolized love and peace, and which he started carrying while incarcerated during the struggle for independence. A casket draped in the Zambian flag was driven on a gun carriage into the sixty thousand capacity national hero stadium, and placed under a white marquee. Foreign dignitaries in Lusaka to pay their respect include South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, Kenneth Uhuru Kenyatta, and Ghanas Nanna Akufwadao, as well as junior British foreign ministers James Dorridge, representing Zambia's former colonial ruler. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news, please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.