Kasavubu
Americannoun
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Joseph Kasavubu became president following the 1960 election, held a month before independence, and Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2018
The Abako party's crafty Joseph Kasavubu sought to split off his Lower Congo region and make it autonomous.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kasavubu recently moved his family from Leopoldville across the river to Brazzaville, in old French territory, presumably to be closer to his old crony Abbe Fulbert Youlou, Premier of the French Congo Republic.
From Time Magazine Archive
President Kasavubu and some 2,000 other citizens succeeded in marking their ballots, but no one else made the grade.
From Time Magazine Archive
African names roll apart like the heads of dried flowers crushed idly between thumb and forefinger—Ngoma, Mukenge, Mulele, Kasavubu, Lumumba.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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