Word: nkumbula
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...Britain's Deputy Prime Minister R. A. Butler to decide the fu ture course of Central Africa. Of rambunctious Sir Roy, Kaunda sneered, "We are here to rob him of his job. You might make him Lord Broken Reed." With Rab Butler, Kaunda and his fellow nationalist, Harry Nkumbula, argued for two hours Northern Rhodesia's right to secede, and asked why their country should be considered "the Cinderella of Central Africa." When Butler refused to make any promises, the two African leaders walked out and sulked for two days in their hotel rooms...
...whose United National Independence Party drew 65,000 votes with its slogan, "Kwacha!" (Dawn), and its appeal for more black power. But Kaunda won only 14 seats, and Welensky's United Federal Party, with one-third of the votes, won 15. The African National Congress of roisterous Harry Nkumbula, Kaunda's ex-mentor, won five seats. Ten seats were left vacant because too few voters crossed racial lines to give them the required 10% of ballots from both upper and lower rolls...
...many metropolitan countries to jelly. I intend to stem that tide if it is within my power." Northern Rhodesia's leading black nationalist, Kenneth Kaunda, in pressing for the black majority rule he had promised his followers back home, condemned the constitution as "British betrayal." Warned Harry Nkumbula, who is Kaunda's chief black rival: "Anything can happen." Sir Roy's answer was to call up 5,000 army reserves to "deal with any insurrection...
Whites cheered Lyttelton's statement; yet most Negro leaders were smilingly unperturbed. Explained Harry Nkumbula, a classmate of the Gold Coast's Prime Minister Nkrumah and chief of Northern Rhodesia's African National Congress: "The so-called 'swamping' is inevitable . . . Time is on the Negroes' side...