Word: kasai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a huge smuggling trade in illicit (and mainly industrial) diamonds from the big South Kasai fields. Millions of dollars are lost by the government in this way alone: of some 17 million carats produced in South Kasai during the past year, only about 124,000 carats came onto the market legally...
...wives and children back, and a few black nannies are again seen in the parks with their white charges. Adoula has deposed and jailed the worst regional extremists, notably erratic Antoine Gizenga, who almost made Eastern Province a Communist preserve last year, and zany "King" Albert Kalonji of South Kasai. But Adoula still has not rid himself of the biggest headache of all, stubborn President Moise Tshombe of Katanga Province, who has a firm grip on the Congo's copper-rich southeast corner and refuses to share its $50 million annual revenue with the rest of the nation...
Lonely & Scared. It started when a U.N. patrol was captured by troops of Albert Kalonji, self-styled "King" of diamond-rich South Kasai province, who had tried to pull a small-scale Tshombe and break away from the central Congolese government. Lawson set out for Kalonji's provincial capital of Bakwanga in an unarmed truck. Something about Lawson's schoolboy French and unmilitary looks charmed the provincial rabble, who released the U.N. patrol...
...found. In Gizenga's interior plantation country, the few remaining whites pay token salaries to black workers to fight back the encroaching jungle, despite the fact that markets for their goods are well-nigh gone. Down at Luluabourg, once the prosperous commercial center of Kasai province, only two shops in the European section remain open-a jeweler and a hardware dealer. Everything else is closed along the main street, where the local Africans doze in the shelter of over hanging sidewalk roofs, occasionally rising to walk out into the drizzle and urinate on the sidewalk...
Back from the successful conference of rival Congo political leaders on the island of Madagascar, Albert Kalonji, the boss of South Kasai province, waved his favorite fetish stick and cried: "The crisis is definitely over. Everybody is satisfied." Congo President Joseph Kasavubu staged a military parade and called a national holiday to celebrate. From the cheerful tone taken by the assorted Congolese leaders, peace and maybe even civilization seemed just around the corner...