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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.
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]
![t2/ Alice Mulenga Lubusha was born in Kasomo in 1919. She became known as "Lenshina ", a vernacular version of "regina" [= queen]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EknYO_BXgAA7NXU.jpg "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.
Some of the answers to the questions are there.
