Word: congolaise
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Bits & Pieces. Most new African states have passed over their own rich native music to copy the marches and hymns of Europe. "I keep hearing bits and pieces from the Marche Consulaire," says one French African hand. The Brazzaville Congo's La Congolaise is vaguely reminiscent of La Marseillaise, and differs from the Debout Congolais of the Leopoldville Congo more in detail than in spirit: "Congolese, arise," sing the Brazzavillians, whereas Moise Tshombe's people are called upon to "Arise, Congolese...
Former Premier Cyrille Adoula, his own Radeco Party badly split and losing influence, refuses to leave his self-imposed exile in Rome to contest the elections. The far-leftists have not had a real leader since Patrice Lumumba, whose once powerful Mouvement National Congolais has been fragmented and dispersed. The...
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