Word: xxiv
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...four centuries, and boasting a population of 1,000,000, the tribe spreads from the Congo's Katanga province into both Portuguese Angola and Northern Rhodesia. The Lunda's most illustrious son is Katanga's secessionist leader Moise Tshombe, who married a daughter of Mwata Yambo XXIV. When his father-in-law died last June of a burst bladder, Tshombe for a time was considered as successor. But the tribal elders, suspecting that Moise might sell them out to the white man, finally settled on a minor chieftain (original name: Gaston Mushidi), who was invested in impressive...
Groveling Subjects. Mwata Yambo XXIV had been a progressive sort who encouraged tribal children to attend school and urged males to work instead of loafing while wives labored. He spoke French, got along well with Europeans. His successor displays no such interest in 20th century manners. He is suspicious of whites, speaks only Lunda and a little Swahili...