Word: balubas
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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Until 1891 Luluabourg belonged solely to the Lulua, a tribe of warriors who hated work in any form. Then a pair of nomadic Arab tribes invaded the area, driving before them a batch of captives from the unwarlike Baluba people. When the Lulua finally drove the invaders off, the captives settled down happily in Luluabourg as voluntary serfs of the Lulua -a state of affairs that persisted until last January, when the downtrodden Baluba finally began to listen to Albert Kalondji, a Baluba politician who told them that they deserved to own the land they tilled...
...Feminine Touch. To keep the peace, the Belgians packed Kalondji off to jail, but they could not hold him long. When he was released last month, the Lulua howled in rage. Last week they sought revenge. Smeared with war paint, Lulua warriors began by burning two Baluba villages to the ground and killing their inhabitants with spears and homemade muzzle-loading rifles. In the suburbs of Luluabourg, naked Lulua women swarmed through the streets screaming to their men to kill, kill, kill. Like a grass fire, murder and mutilation swept over an area of 40 miles until the number...