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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: The Heart of Darkness | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

...white bwanas of CABS face the rigorous problem of putting out a coherent program for 60 hours a week in eight different languages (Bemba, Nyanja, Lozi, Lunda, Luvala, Shona, Ndebele, Tonga) plus a few hours weekly in English. But they resolutely fight off local pressure to add 40 other African dialects to the programming. Every night of the year, however, they give their forgetful listeners an indispensable service in CABS's sign-off announcement, always clearly enunciated twice: "You must now turn your radio set off!" Otherwise 60,000 set batteries might well drain all night. By the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Iron That Catches Words | 6/25/1956 | See Source »

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