Word: lenshina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...track, called the Great North Road, to Chinsali, a district commissioner's headquarters. There he switched to a bicycle and pedaled down a goat path through man-high bush, infested with mamba snakes, lions and man-eating chiggers, to the mud-and-thatch village where lives the prophetess, Lenshina Mulenga (see RELIGION...
...started taking photographs and giving the tin containers for his tropic-pack film to the black children. Their parents snatched the shining tin away, fearing it was a whiteman's charm. An old man thumped Hughes's chest and cried: "You come to pay respects to Lenshina, all right. But don't come bring silver magic...