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Kasai
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kasai , former province, c.124,000 sq mi...present Kananga ) was the capital. Between the Kasai and the Sankuru rivers the Kuba kingdom of...Baluba-dominated Mining State of South Kasai, headed by Albert Kalonji, who proclaimed...
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Pende
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Lutshima, a tributary of the Kwilu, to the Kasai. The Kwilu crosses this territory, as...formerly, L é opoldville) and Kasai and separating administratively the western Pende from the eastern Pende (or Pende-Kasai). The latter differ markedly in language...
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Lumumba, Patrice
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Patrice Lumumba Born: July 2, 1925 Kasai, Congo Died: January 18, 1961 Katanga...tiny village of Onalua in northeastern Kasai, a Congolese province (political unit...of the provinces of Katanga and Southern Kasai, which had been encouraged by Belgian...
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Biliary Atresia
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...attach a piece of intestine directly to the liver — the Kasai procedure. In its wisdom, the body will discover that the...the channels will gradually enlarge. Survival rates for the Kasai procedure are commonly 50% at five years and 15% at 10 years...
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Patrice Emery Lumumba
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...town of Katako-Kombe in the Sankuru district of northeastern Kasai. His tribe, the Batetela, is a peripheral but dynamic branch...of the army and the secession of Katanga and then of Southern kasai, aided and abetted by Belgian interests and the unilateral...
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Kananga
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...formerly Luluabourg , city (1984 pop. 298,693), capital of Kasai-Occidental prov., S central Congo (Kinshasa), on the...fled to the short-lived (1960-61) Mining State of South Kasai . In 1961-62, the city was held by rebel troops from É...
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Mary Tew Douglas
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Zaire), to study the folkways of a tribe, the Lele of the Kasai, for her Ph.D. under Professor Evans-Pritchard (1951...Dissertation Her doctoral dissertation, published as The Lele of the Kasai in 1963, studied the Lele tribe "as they cooked, divided...
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Mbuji-Mayi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Mayi , formerly Bakwanga , city (1984 pop. 486,235), capital of Kasai-Oriental province, S central Congo (Kinshasa), on the Sankuru River...1960 to 1962 it was the capital of the secessionist Mining State of South Kasai .
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Kongo, Mongo, Luba, Bwaka, Kwango, Lulua, Lunda, and Kasai. The Alur are the main Nilotic speakers. In the 1990s, Congo...tin ore), coal, gold, and silver. Diamonds are mined in Kasai. There are major deposits of petroleum offshore near the mouth...
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Joseph Kasavubu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...rudimentary schooling in the Kikongo language, Kasavubu attended a petit s é minaire (1929-1936) and then a seminary in Kasai, from which he was dismissed in 1939 with the equivalent of an undergraduate degree in philosophy for reasons that were never...
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