Luluabourg

/ luːˈluːəˌbʊə /

noun

1. the former name (until 1966) of Kananga

Example Sentences

When the train's engine was bombed, the soldiers clambered aboard rail hand cars and highballed into Luluabourg, full of excuses about waves of Katangese bombers, masses of enemy tanks and white paratroopers.

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Luluabourg's U.N. chief explained lamely.

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Into Luluabourg to head off the exit of the Europeans flew Premier Adoula, fearful that a mass exodus of white technicians would bring the Congo's already sputtering economy to a halt.

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In Luluabourg local troops, unpaid and surly with drink, placed their garrison commander under arrest because they thought that he was pro-Tshombe.

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At Luluabourg, deep in the heart of the Congo, black cadets are training at the colony's first military academy.

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