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Luluabourg

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Luluabourg: see Kananga Kananga , formerly Luluabourg , city (1984 pop. 298,693), capital of Kasai-Occidental prov., S central Congo (Kinshasa), on the Lulua River. It is the commercial and transportation center of a region where cotton is grown and diamonds are mined.
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, city, Congo.
Luluabourg 

(now Kananga), a city in the Republic of Zaire; administrative center of the province of Kasai Occidental (Western). Population, 150,000 (1970). Luluabourg is a highway junction and has a railroad station and an airport. It is an important commercial and distribution center, with food-processing (including brewing and flour milling), printing, and cotton-ginning enterprises.



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The new constitution has also restored the Luluabourg flag which was designed when the traitors of Patrice Lumumba, led by Mobutu Sese Seko, signed a peace/reconciliation deal with pro-Lumumbists in Luluabourg (now Kananga).
During the next four months he produced nearly 800 frames, including images of Igboland, Yorubaland, and the area around Jos and Kano in Nigeria, and of Leopoldville, Luluabourg, and Basongo, among other places, in the Belgian Congo (Stokes Hammer 1994:84).
 
 
 
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