Word: batetela
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...Batetela, the leaflets bore a message from Mama Onema, a witch doctor formerly with the Simbas but now working for Tshombe. Mama Onema warned that the Simbas' dawa (magic) was no longer effective and urged the rebels to lay down their arms, for "otherwise, you will be cursed...
Died. Patrice Hemery Lumumba, 35, goateed, bespectacled Batetela tribesman who was a mission school student, postal clerk, embezzler and beer salesman before he became a successful demagogue and the first Premier of the Congo; said to have been murdered by bush villagers after he "escaped"' from jail; in an as yet undisclosed place in Katanga province (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Eyes of Fire. Lumumba is the Congo's nearest approach to a national figure. He is determined to install a strong central government rising above tribal loyalties. The son of a Batetela tribesman, he grew up in equatorial Stanleyville, where he attended first a Catholic, then a Protestant mission school, finally completing his education at the Belgians' training school for postal employees. A year after Lumumba took his first job as clerk in the Stanleyville post office, he was in jail, convicted of embezzling $2,520 of government money. Freed in 1957, he prospered as the persuasive salesman...
Wiry, goateed Patrice Lumumba, 34, the Batetela tribesman from Stanleyville, whizzed about grandly in a black limousine as he dickered desperately to get control of the first government. Chubby, 43-year-old Joseph Kasavubu, loyal to his Bakongo people, was also deep in negotiation with key faction leaders such as Paul Bolya of the Mongo tribe and Jean Boli-kango, the Ngombe spokesman. The corridors of Leopoldville's new Palais de la Nation echoed to the jabber of a score of languages and dialects, for the Congo's first legislators represent a nation of more than 150 separate...
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