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Word: batetela (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIAN CONGO: Taking Over | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIAN CONGO: A Blight at Birth | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

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