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Facebook Carrie Navin: "There was a zambian rebel leader that spent a lot of time in my area and affected the people so i thought i would write about him.
Just before zambian independence the major domestic political party was going to put up Nkumbula as their presidential candidate and Mushala as their vp candidate. Kenneth Kaunda, the secretary of the party played a trick and instead of campaigning for Nkumbula, campaigned for himself. Kaunda ended up winning the election and instated a one party system. Mushala was put as the minister of wildlife and was based in jivundu (25km from me) Mushala was pissed and quit and tried to run as president, which was illegal in the one party state. So he ran to namibia and angola to get support, training, and weapons. While there he also learned juju to make himself invisible to the government troops. He came back to zambia in 1975 with soldiers, the zambian government sent troops to stop him. They fought bush battles in kashima (this was the early 80s so most people i know here were directly effected. After a time when Mushala burned houses in kashima, the locals took up arms (dogs, bows and arrows) to fight. Mushala was hit in the heel and two kashima men were shot. Mushala fled to congo for ammunition and to take revenge on kashima. His wife at the time was living in jivundu and was fed up with living in the bush and so she gave up mushalas camp to the gov troops. When Mushala came back from congo they ambushed him and shot him in the eye. He is buried in solwezi.

My host father told me this tale so it is his fault if it is exagerated or wrong, haha. I think there is a book about Mushala so if you are interested check it out."