Drum Magazine social history photographs, East Africa edition 232

Birth Of A Nation – Guns, bands and cheers at ceremony. There were freedom of the city ceremonies, state luncheons, garden parties, balls, tribal dances, pageants, mass youth rallies, mass youth displays, a monster military review (introducing a new, slightly startling Kaunda dressed as commander-in-chief)... the lot, right down to trick motorcyclists riding through flaming hoops.