Word: boshi
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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Since the capital city of Pointe Noire is in the hands of a tribe allied to Socialist Opangault's loyal followers, the M'Boshi, the abbe hastily got the seat of government moved to Brazzaville. There he somehow managed to increase his majority in the Parliament from one seat to seven. Opangault again and again charged bribery, and announced that he and his party would boycott Parliament unless the Premier forthwith set a date for new elections. Last week the ultimatum expired, and the fighting began...
...quickly degenerated from a political brawl to old-fashioned warfare. Throughout the native quarters of Bacongo and Poto-Poto, Balali tribesmen, loyal to the abbé, and the M'Boshi went after each other with everything from broken bottles to the deadly assagai-the short spear used by Chaka, the "Black Napoleon," to conquer his 19th century Zulu empire. At first the M'Boshi in their white headdresses proved more adept at carving up their enemies just as their ancestors used to do, but the Balalis, wearing leaves in their hair, retaliated by setting whole blocks...
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