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Word: bulambemba (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1964-1964
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...proclaimed heir to Patrice Lumumba and the instigator of Stanleyville's bloody 1961 revolt. Clad in a red, white and blue ski sweater, Gizenga was unshaven but smiling as he stepped out of the plane, apparently none the worse for the 2½ years he had spent on Bulambemba, an island prison in the mouth of the Congo River. It had not been a painful confinement, for his obliging jailers had given Gizenga plenty of opportunity to engage in his favorite non-political sports: the smoking of hemp and the pursuit at close quarters of young girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: The Snake Has All the Lines | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

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