Word: lunda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Millionaire. In the bush, few if any of the warriors took up their weapons, but this was due perhaps as much to bad communications as to disobedience; although Tshombe has virtually no support among the Balubas in the northern half of Katanga, he is strongly backed by the proud Lunda people of the south. It was there, in the Lulua River country along the Angola border, at Sandoa, that Moise Tshombe grew to manhood, the first son of the region's richest tribesman. His father Joseph was a thriving merchant with a string of 16 village stores that eventually...
...Family. It seemed time to try another field. Turning to politics, Tshombe put to use his two big assets. One was a jovial, easy charm. The other was his father-in-law; young Moise had married the daughter of Bako Ditende, a prominent chief of the Lunda tribe, later to become Mwata Yamvo Ditende Yawa Nawezi III, supreme ruler of all the Lunda. Ditende's influence helped when Tshombe sought and won a seat on the Elisabethville city council (a tame advisory body under the thumb of the Belgian provincial governor) in 1947, then moved up to the Katanga...
...only natural that Moise Tshombe would be in on the founding in 1959 of Katanga's first full-fledged political party, the Confederation des Associations du Katanga (Conakat). The new group was backed chiefly by Tshombe's (and his father-in-law's) own fiercely independent Lunda tribesmen, who were happy enough to win freedom from the Belgians but had no great desire to be part of one big Congo family, since most of the vast mineral deposits were located right down in Katanga's southern tip-Lunda country...