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Central Africa's weird little holy war went into its third terrifying week. On one side was the government of Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda; on the other the spear-bearing, fanatic followers of Prophetess Alice Lenshina, whose hybrid cult mixes white magic with the teachings of the Church of Scotland...
During last winter's elections that brought Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party to power, the only serious violence at the polls occurred in the northeastern districts, and they involved not Kaunda's political opponents but the zealous followers of a religious prophetess named Alice Lenshina. It seems that Kaunda's agents tried to force her people to vote. They did not want to, and by the time the excitement was over, a number of people were dead. Last week Alice's followers were at it again, this time sparking a major rebellion that...
...sweep the territorial elections set for Jan. 20, but Kaunda is already facing terrorist opposition from the African National Congress, led by hard-drinking Harry Nkumbula and by members of the Lumpa church, a militant African sect headed by a 39-year-old self-styled prophetess named Alice Lenshina...
Aside from her effect on the mission, authorities are most concerned lest Lenshina be taken over by the anti-white movement in Africa. Though she has given no indication that she will, this is a constant possibility; many mission-educated Africans among her followers have been changing their names from Christopher or John back to Shamwa or Mkoshi...
...after day, Lenshina leads her followers in a chant of her cult...