Word: luvala
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...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...
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