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Word: depinda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Congolese have begun quarreling among themselves. Last week, at the Kitona paratroop base, 180 men were wounded, after a band of Bakongo tribesmen threw up picket lines to keep non-Bakongo workers away from their jobs. In Moanda, where the" Abako Party has been accusing chiefs of selling out depinda (independence) for a million Congolese francs, at least one chief's house has been burned to the ground, and tension runs so high that Belgian youngsters now go to school escorted by troops carrying Tommy guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BELGIAN CONGO: Return of the Mundele | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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