t1/ ALICE LENSHINA & HER LUMPA CHURCH UPRISING PICTORIAL THREAD 2

Read the books for a holistic & granular story ( Twitter can't do justice to the story) Photos not in any chronological sequence.

t2/ Alice Mulenga Lubusha was born in Kasomo in 1919. She became known as "Lenshina ", a vernacular version of "regina" [= queen]

t3/ The church originated in 1953, at a time when political ferment had started but was still comparatively muted.

t4/ Views of the Lumpa church

t5/ c1960s- Chinsali Hospital, starving Lumpa boy getting attention.

t7/ c1960s-Some of the starving Lumpas at Chinsali hospital.

t7/ 1964- Chilanga Village, Chinsali, Colonial officers issuing ultimatums to the Lumpa Church members.

t8/ Prime Minister Kaunda provides an update on the Lumpa uprising.

t9/ c1963, Chinsali, Governor Hone and Prime Minister Kaunda visit the epicenter of the troubled.

t10/ Police guard of honor for European and African policeman killed by Lumpa church members.

t11/Northern Rhodesia troops poised around the church for battle

t12/ Blood stained church interior.

t13/ Scenes from the "Holy War"

t14/ Aerial view of the church

t15/ Troops deployed

t16/ Villages reduced to rubble

t18/ Aprox 800 Church members were killed

t19/ Newspaper reports

t20/ Lenshina was eventually apprehended. She died under house arrest on 7 Dec 1978 and buried at Kasomo.

t21/ Read The Books.

Some of the answers to the questions are there.