Death of a dictator

President Uhuru Kenyatta announced the death, at Nairobi Hospital, without giving a cause. He declared a period of national mourning and said Mr. Moi would receive a state funeral.



After leaving office in December 2002, Moi lived in retirement, largely shunned by the political establishment. However, he still retained some popularity with the masses, and his presence never failed to gather a crowd. He spoke out against a proposal for a new constitution in 2005; according to Moi, the document was contrary to the aspirations of the Kenyan people. After the proposal was defeated in a November 2005 constitutional referendum, President Kibaki called President Moi to arrange for a meeting to discuss the way forward.



Half-hearted inquiries that began at the request of foreign aid donors never amounted to anything substantial during Moi's presidency.[30][31] Although it appears that the peaceful transfer of power to Mwai Kibaki may have involved an understanding that Moi would not stand trial for offences committed during his presidency, foreign aid donors reiterated their requests, and Kibaki reopened the inquiry. As the inquiry has progressed, Moi, his two sons, Philip and Gideon (now a Senator), and his daughter, June, as well as a host of high-ranking Kenyans, have been implicated. In testimony delivered in late July 2003, Treasury Permanent Secretary Joseph Magari recounted that, in 1991, Moi ordered him to pay Ksh34.5 million ($460,000) to Goldenberg, contrary to the laws then in force.[32]

As with President Jomo Kenyatta, many government projects, buildings were named after Moi, and his face adorned the country’s currency and coins. Kenyans voted for a new constitution that was implemented in 2010 and made provisions to bar personality cults.



Official corruption, abuse of power and a deteriorating economy exploded in 1982 in an attempted coup by low-ranking air force officers. But army loyalists crushed the uprising, and Mr. Moi ordered the arrest of the entire 2,100-member air force. Hundreds were imprisoned or executed, and the service’s ranks were replaced. He also ordered all civil servants to join the ruling political party, of which he was president.

Daniel arap Moi married the late Lena Moi (born Helena Bommet) in 1950, but they separated in 1974, before his presidency. Lena died in 2004. Moi had eight children, five sons and three daughters.

3. That as an expression of public sorrow, the flag of the Republic of Kenya shall be flown at half-mast at State House, state lodges, all public buildings and public grounds, all military bases, posts and stations, on all Naval vessels of the Republic of Kenya, and however elsewhere throughout the Republic of Kenya; from dawn on 4th February 2020 until sunset on the day of the Burial.

When Jomo Kenyatta died on 22 August 1978, Moi became acting president. Per the Constitution, a special presidential election for the balance of Kenyatta's term was to be held on 8 November, 90 days later. That never happened as the Cabinet held a Special Cabinet meeting without Moi and decided that no one else was interested and went around the country campaigning for him to be declared elected unopposed. He was therefore sworn in as the second President of Kenya on 14 October 1978.[16][17]

In 1955 Moi entered politics when he was elected Member of the Legislative Council for Rift Valley. He was the chosen replacement of Dr. John ole Tameno, the former representative who had had to quit due to heavy drinking and suspected connections to the freedom movement.[10] In 1957 Moi was re-elected Member of the Legislative Council for Rift Valley. Moi was part of the Kenyan delegation at the Lancaster House Conferences in London, which drafted the country's first post-independence constitution, and in 1961 became Minister of Education in the pre-independence government.[11]

CHRISTIANITY IS A HOAX

When most Christians talk about a “worldview”, they’re really talking about the set of assumptions that they start with when they try to make sense of the world. For many fundamentalists, they assume that the world is 6000 years old, and that the Bible is an accurate history book. They also assume that there is something called the “supernatural” and that it has the ability to influence our world in strange ways, even though the concept is piss-poorly defined. I think that the vast majority of the assumptions they hold are unjustified, and because of that they end up reaching strange conclusion, all while weaving an intricate just-so story.



Yes, they seem to think that there is only Aristotelian/Thomist metaphysics. I think it would be interesting to get into discussion of, say, some aspects of Peter van Imwagen’s book Metaphysics or the underlying metaphysical assumptions for Bell’s inequalities and how this would be formulated in A/T terminology. One thing that Ameribear was singularly unable to do was to formulate a simple chemical reaction in A/T terms.



I haven’t heard a single, rational reason yet for Catholicism Neither have I and I was educated by catholics. so I can’t say if they’re lacking or not. You can say that so far, they’re lacking. At a certain point they’ll ban you for pointing that out or abandon the discussion (when they’re not in a place where they can ban you) for pointing it out. They still haven’t provided one. Their great intellectual resource is “A/T metaphysics” which is based on thirteenth century philosophy when no one understood what Newton understood or Einstein or anything since then. What they will do is put Thomas’s concepts derived from Aristotle on anything that has been figured out about how reality works and claim it hasn’t been disproven. They ignore that it has become (no fault to Aristotle or Aquinas, neither of whom had access to the discoveries that have been made since they tried to figure things out) false, or at the very least, mostly useless. . They will call it “metaphysics”. Which means, no matter what disciplined methodologies discover about the universe, A/T “metaphysics” saw it coming and gets to claim it for its own. And it can also claim an unmoved mover is necessary. All to prop up belief in Yahweh, Jesus, Yahwehjesus, demons, angels, heaven, hell and whatever the RCC proclaims is true. It doesn’t but when they refer to an “intellectual” or “rational” leg, that is what they mean. That is, if they can even explain it themselves. Most of them can’t. All this to prop up the claim that an immaterial omnibeing exists who spent a few decades in a backwater of history, courtesy of a virgin birth and a magic star. So, back to your origninal point. I can’t say if they’re lacking or not. Do they acknowledge their burden and support it? Not so far. They spend most of their time claiming it without supporting it and the rest of their time accusing people who don’t accept it of leading with their head, not their heart. When that doesn’t work, of not understanding the sophisticated, intellectual support that exists. You will encounter the same strategies if you tackle the mormons, the scientologists, any sort of muslim or jew. They just dismiss those guys. They live by claiming there are “two sides” and accusing us of all manner of unsavory things (like Jim accused us a while back of praying for innocent humans to be massacred, and then withdrew, when called on it.) Note that he’ll spend all (or most) of his time here, pretending to miss the point about “I don’t believe you.” If you dig deep enough, he’ll produce a PRATT. When you explain that the PRATT is a PRATT, he’ll sneak in something about your character.

NELSON MANDELA

Nelson Mandela is known for several things, but perhaps he is best known for successfully leading the resistance to South Africa’s policy of apartheid in the 20th century, during which he was infamously incarcerated at Robben Island Prison (1964–82). He won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1993, along with South Africa’s president at the time, F.W. de Klerk, for having led the transition from apartheid to a multiracial democracy. Mandela is also known for being the first black president of South Africa, serving from 1994 to 1999. Read more below: Presidency and retirement

Mandela soon became actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement, joining the African National Congress in 1942. Within the ANC, a small group of young Africans banded together, calling themselves the African National Congress Youth League. Their goal was to transform the ANC into a mass grassroots movement, deriving strength from millions of rural peasants and working people who had no voice under the current regime. 

The world’s oceans cover 70% of the planet and are a critical source of oxygen, food, marine resources, employment and subsistence. Knowledge of what is being done to conserve our oceans and to ensure that the so-called blue economy is sustainably developed is therefore vital.



Shocked by the news, feeling trapped and believing that he had no other option than to follow this recent order, Mandela ran away from home. He settled in Johannesburg, where he worked a variety of jobs, including as a guard and a clerk, while completing his bachelor's degree via correspondence courses. He then enrolled at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg to study law.



Release from prison On 12 August 1988 he was taken to hospital where he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. After more than three months in two hospitals he was transferred on 7 December 1988 to a house at Victor Verster Prison near Paarl where he spent his last 14 months of imprisonment. He was released from its gates on Sunday 11 February 1990, nine days after the unbanning of the ANC and the PAC and nearly four months after the release of his remaining Rivonia comrades. Throughout his imprisonment he had rejected at least three conditional offers of release. Mandela immersed himself in official talks to end white minority rule and in 1991 was elected ANC President to replace his ailing friend, Oliver Tambo. In 1993 he and President FW de Klerk jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize and on 27 April 1994 he voted for the first time in his life. President On 10 May 1994 he was inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratically elected President. On his 80th birthday in 1998 he married Graça Machel, his third wife. True to his promise, Mandela stepped down in 1999 after one term as President. He continued to work with the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund he set up in 1995 and established the Nelson Mandela Foundation and The Mandela Rhodes Foundation.

LOCUSTS INVASION

No classificatory distinction is made between locust and grasshopper species; the basis for the definition is whether a species forms swarms under intermittently suitable conditions. In English, the term "locust" is used for grasshopper species that change morphologically and behaviourally on crowding, forming swarms that develop from bands of immature tier name hoppers.



North America is generally the only continent besides Antarctica without a native locust specie. The Rocky Mountain locust was formerly one of the most significant insect pests there, but it became extinguished in 1902. In the 1930s, during the Dust Bowl, a other species of North American locust, the High Plains locust (Dissosteira longipennis) reached plague proportions in the American Midwest. Today, the High Plains locust is a rare species, liberty North America with no regularly multitude locusts.




The mutual attraction between single insects persevere into adulthood, and they proceed to execute as a cohesive group. Individuals that get detached from a swarm fly back into the mass. Others that get larboard behind after feeding, take off to rejoin the throng when it passes overhead. When individuals at the front of the swarm settle to eat, others fly ended overhead and settle in their turn, the whole swarm acting like a rolling one with an ever-changing leading edge. The locusts pass much time on the ground feeding and resting, moving on when the vegetation is exhausted. They may then length a considerable distance before settling in a location where transitory rainfall has caused a green flush of new growth.[7]

“They are victims of wind management. From October to February, the wind has been blowing from l to south over the Horn of Africa. That means any locusts in Ethiopia or Somalia will connect to be blown into Kenya,” he says.



From Somalia, they entered Kenya through Mandera and El Wak in December last year. The formicate that entered the country were in the matured stage, but immature, meaning, they were not ready to mate and lay urge. However, this could soon change.

The risk to both pasture and crops in 2020 “remains high and critical given the ever-expanding areas affected,” FAO warns. Given the favourable ecologic conditions, the desert locust population is expected to continue to grow in the north and migrate southern. Over the next six months, more than 100,000 hectares will require some system of direct control.

More than 2,350 square kilometres of crops, pascuous, and forest screen has been affected in Afar, Amhara, Oromia, Somali, Tigray, and the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' regions. Fast-moving swarms keep arriving from undetected areas in Ethiopia as well as adjacent areas of Somalia.

The Horn and East Africa has been hard hit by aridity and, late last year, flooding. Locusts are yet another burden that will make recovery among already struggling rural communities all the harder.

It is tenacious, ferocious and will stop at nothing. It is called a desert locust or, scientifically, Schistocerca gregaria. The desert locust, the larva wreaking destroy across the country, is one of the most destructive species. It’s greatest property being agility and endurance, enabling it to remainder in the demeanor for long periods of time. Thanks to this, the desert locust can cover 150km per day at a speed of 16km/hr, destroying everything in its path.

Study of literature prove how permeating plagues of locusts were over the course of annals. The insects arrived unexpectedly, often after a shift of infold guidance or weather, and the consequences were devastating. The Ancient Egyptians carved locusts on tombs in the period 2470 to 2220 BC, and a devastating plague is mentioned in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, as taking place in Egypt around 1446 BC.[16][29] The Iliad mentions locusts seizure to the guard to flight fire.[30] Plagues of locusts are also individualize in the Quran.[12] In the ninth century BC, the Chinese régime appointed anti-locust officers.[31]

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GOLD RICH AFRICA

The African continent is ample in natural resources. Some of its 54 countries talk big resources resembling diamonds, sugar, riches, uranium, silver, oil and rock oil. Oil being an invaluable commodity, its production place countries resembling Nigeria and Egypt at the top in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).



Sub-Saharan Africa is strongly dependent on its natural capital even though in aggregate, in per capita terms, or per unit of area, the subcontinent is one of the least resource-rich regions in the world. Natural expedient dominate the structure of wealth in Africa: The portion of natural capital in the continuous’s aggregate wealth is the second meridian in the world after the countries that form the hydrocarbon-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Even resource-dejected sub-Saharan Africa, with its relatively low level of natural capital per capita, has a share of natural leading in total riches that is higher than resource-ample mid-gain countries outside Africa. While paradoxical at first allude, it is the consequence of the fact that the contributions of human and physical prominent to total wealth are modest both in funds-rich and resource-poor Africa.



Third on the incline of countries with the most natural resources is Canada. Overall, the country has an estimated $33.2 trillion worth of commodities and the third largest oil precipitate after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. The commodities that the country owns include trade minerals, such as gypsum, limestone, defense salt, and potash, as well as energy minerals, such as coal and uranium. Metals in Canada include copper, lead, nickel, and zinc, and syrupy metals are riches, platinum and silver. Canada is the guiding supplier of legitimate gas and phosphate and is the third largest exporter of timber.

With the largest holding in the world, the U.S. lays claim to nighly as much gold as the next three countries confederated. It also has one of the highest gold allocations as a pay of its foreign except, second only to Tajikistan, where the metal accounts for more than 88 percent. Donald Trump made headlines recently, claiming “we do not have the gold,” but from what we know, the majority of U.S. gold is held at Fort Knox in Kentucky, with the remainder held at the Philadelphia Mint, Denver Mint, San Francisco Assay Office and West Point Bullion Depository.

10. Tanzania In 2017, according to the IMF, Tanzania’s GDP was $51.725bn. Half of the country’s workforce find employment in the agricultural sector, while the rest are divided between mining, manufacturing, food processing, and telecommunications. The inactive reliance on agriculture makes Tanzania vulnerable to environmental shocks and commodiousness prices. Some of its principal exports are minerals like gold and diamonds, coffee, cotton, herb tea, and tobacco. Tanzania’s tourism is also on the up. Approximately 38 percent of land area is set aside in protected areas for conservation, but are used as game reserves and national parks. The country is also home to Mount Kilimanjaro, attracting the regard of international tourists who want to visit the sleeping giant. 17.5% of 2016’s GDP came from tourism and is anticipated to keep increasing.

AFRICA OIL RICH NATIONS

The top oil-producing countries of the world are located in the Middle East, Asia, and North America, and these regions are most commonly associated with oil production. However, a number of African nations also make significant amounts of oil each year. In fact, countries in this neighborhood of the world hold 3.6% of the broad smear reserves supply. This article foreground some of the top anoint-producing countries in Africa.





The largest oil producing region in Africa is Nigeria. Here, the oil industry generates around 2.35 million barrels of oil on a daily basis, which represents approximately 113 million tonnes every year. Since the middle of the 20th century, the country has been developing its oil processing perseverance. Today, oil companion up 90% of total remove from Nigeria and generates around 80% of its revenue.



The problem of quotation swings is demonstrated by the adroit golflinks between oil recompense and GDP per capita. For instance, the world oil price bust of the tardy 1970s was followed by a long period of economic diminish across the continent, which sent GDP per capita, a high indicator of living standards, tumbling. Between 1981 and 1999, the temperate’s economy shrank by about 1.15 percent per year on run. Following almost two decades of withdraw, the economy started to wax again, by helter-skelter 3 percent per year. That growth coincided with a rise in world oil prices.

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This is a list of countries by oil production, as compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration database for schedule year 2019, tabulating all countries on a comparable best-estimate basis. Compared with shorter-term data, the full-year figures are less prone to distortion from periodic sustenance shutdowns and other seasonal cycles. The volumes in the table represent crude oil and lease condensate, the hydrocarbon liquids collected at or near the wellhead. The volumes in the table do not hold biofuel. They also do not include the aggravate in liquid volumes during oil refining ("refinery gain"), or liquids separated from natural fart in gasoline processing plants (natural gas liquids).[1]

The African continent is home to five of the top 30 oil-producing countries in the world. It accounted for more than 8.7 million barrels per day in 2014, which is about 9.4% of world output for the year. This level of work is down somebody from the heights of 2005 to 2010 when African production topped 10 million barrels per day, comprehend a full of nearly 10.7 million barrels per day in 2010. As of 2015, declines are due mostly to political and civil instability and violence in many of Africa's biggest oil-producing countries. 1. Nigeria Nigeria produced more than 2.4 million barrels of oil per day in 2014 to strong-scented as the 13th-largest oil producer in the circle. The country has produced between 2.1 million and about 2.6 million barrels per day for the last 18 donkey’s. Fluctuations in annual oil work, peculiarly since 2005, can be attributed largely to security problems united to violent militant groups in the country. While Nigeria is home to the assistant-largest proved oil reserves in Africa, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports that security issues and other business risks in the country have subject oil prospecting efforts. The state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is responsible for regulating Nigeria's anoint and gas sector, and for developing its oil and gas property. The NNPC reckon heavily on international smear companies to fund development and provide expertise. Most large onshore oil production operations in the country are organized as joint ventures between the NNPC and private oil firms, with the NNPC as majority owner. Comparatively costly and complicated offshore oil developments are typically organized under production-part contracts, the terms of which can be regulated to afford appropriate incentives to international operators. The largest international oil companies operating in Nigeria include Chevron Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell plc, Total S.A. and Eni S.p.A. 2. Angola Angola produced nearly 1.8 million barrels of oil per day in 2014, continuing a determination of fluctuating fruit that began in 2009. Prior to 2009, the country achieved seven consequential for ever of production gains in the oil sector, raising the average output from 742,000 barrels per day to nearly 2 million barrels per day. These gains were originally the result of new production from deepwater oilfields offshore. Most oil production in Angola takes place offshore, as violence and conflict have limited exploration and production activities onshore. The Sociedade Nacional de Combustiveis de Angola, also known as Sonangol, is Angola's state-owned smear company. It oversees virtually all oil and gas development in the country. Most exploration and production operations in Angola are kerned by international oil companies operating in joint ventures or under produce-sharing agreements with Sonangol. Some of the biggest oil crew in Angola include Chevron Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Total S.A., Statoil ASA, Eni S.p.A. and China National Offshore Oil Corporation, also known as CNOOC. 3. Algeria Algeria produced just over 1.7 million barrels of anoint per day in 2014 to maintain its position among the top tier of African oil producers. However, 2014 marks the backer consecutive year of drip-drop production in the country, amounting to a total of more than 150,000 barrels per day of lost production. According to the EIA, these declines are primarily a result of delayed investments in new infrastructure and new production projects. In the nine years prior to 2013, Algerian oil production was fairly consistent, averaging around 1.9 million jar per day. In addition to its substantial oil output, Algeria also ranks as the top natural gas furnish in Africa. Entreprise Nationale Sonatrach is Algeria's state-owned oil and gas company. Under the Hydrocarbon Act of 2005 and its subsequent amendments, Sonatrach must engage a minimum of 51% equity in all oil and gas projects in the country. As of 2014, Sonatrach controls approximately 80% of oil and gas composition in the country. International oil companies make up the remaining 20%, although through joint stake and resemblant arrangements with Sonatrach. International anoint big leagues involved in Algerian smear production include BP plc, Repsol S.A., Total S.A., Statoil ASA, Eni S.p.A. and Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. 4. Egypt Egypt produced 668,000 barrels of oil per day in 2014, the quartern consecutive year of falling production. Declines totaled about 9.3% during that period, which is especially problematic given the 3% annual growth in oil consumption in the country during the last decade. According to the EIA, the decline in Egyptian production is mostly attributable to maturing oil fields. Exploration activities continue in the land in the hopes of boosting domestic production to keep up with ever-increasing girl claim. Egypt's state-owned oil circle, Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), controls all oil production in the country. EGPC partners with a number of international oil companies in offshore and onshore production operations in Egypt. Eni S.p.A. and BP plc are major shareholders in offshore Egyptian production assets. The American oil company Apache Corporation is a sharer in production assets in Egypt's Western forsaken. 5. Libya Libya produced about 516,000 barrels of oil per day in 2014, a decrease of more than 47% from the previous year. This decline was primarily a terminate of national aver that broke out in 2013. The country saw even more severe disruptions in anoint supply during the Libyan courteous war in 2011 when production declined from about 1.8 million barrels per age in 2010 to a daily go of 500,000 barrels the next year. Prior to 2011, Libya maintained anoint production above 1.7 million barrels per day for six consecutive years. The country contains proven reserves of oil amounting to about 48 billion barrels, which is the most in Africa. The state-owned National Oil Corporation has controlled the oil and gas sector in Libya for many yonks. However, the civil unrest in the country has precipitated a power struggle that has yet to be concluded as of September 2015. International anoint companies were active in Libyan oil production antecedent to this period, but the future will remain cloudy until the unstableness is resolved. International smear companies with operations in Libya include ConocoPhillips Co., Repsol S.A., Total S.A., Eni S.p.A. and Occidental Petroleum Corporation

KONGO KINGDOM

In this article we reconstruct the actuation and transmission of a phonological innovation known as add reduction within the Kikongo language cluster situated in the wider Lower Congo vicinity of Central Africa. We dispute that this change spread from a focal area concur with the heartland of the Kongo kingdom as a classical process of dialectal diffusion. Thanks to a unique Kikongo corpus that starts in the 17th century, we can provide diachronic empirical evidence for different disconcert of the process, which has been otherwise difficult, if not impossible, in Bantu historical accidence. What is more, and also behave exceptional in African glossology, we have auspiciously good insight into the ‘social ecology’ of this speech change and argue that political centralization and economic integration within the realm of the Kongo kingdom facilitated such a brush-induced diffusion between privately-related language varieties.



Situated in the Lower Congo and boreal Angola, the Kongo kingdom was founded in the fourteenth century. The kingdom's genuine home lies somewhere in the region along the lower stretches of the River Congo. According to a study of Kongo's traditions by John Thornton, the origin of the kingdom was in the small state of Mpemba Kasi, located just south of modern day Matadi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A dynasty of rulers from this small state built up their rule along the Kwilu valley, and were buried in Nsi Kwilu, which was apparently its capital. At some point in around 1375, the ruler of Mpemba Kasi made an alliance with the ruler of the neighbouring Mbata kingdom, and the Kongo kingdom was born out of this alliance.



Alvaro I and his successor, Alvaro II, brought stability to the Kongo Kingdom by expanding the domain of their royal authority while keeping at bark encroachment by the Portuguese, whose colony during the late years of the sixteenth century remained confined to the region south of Kongo. But after the death of Alvaro II in 1614, conflicts over access to cultivable land between Kongo and the Portuguese plantation of Angola soured formerly harmonious relations, and in 1622 the Portuguese governor of Angola launched an attack on Kongo. Although not entirely successful from the Portuguese point of inspection, the war had a number of lasting effects. First, the colony captured a large number of slaves, which demonstrated how rewarding slave raiding could be. Second, the Portuguese came out of the wage confute of the bein of silver and gold mines in Kongo, a belief that encouraged a series of conflicts between the colonists and the Kongo Kingdom for the next half century. The war also created a xenophobia among the Bakongo of the interior, who drove on many Portuguese. Because the trading system depended largely on the Bakongo, commerce was greatly disrupted, with effects on the Angolan settlement as great as those on the Kongo Kingdom.



The Quilombo of Palmares settlement of escaped slaves is formed in far eastern Brazil (the term 'quilombo' is specifically used for such settlements). The settlement's population is formed largely of free-born enslaved Africans and is ruled by chiefs who apparently have a princely origin within Africa. One of the last rulers is Zumbi, claimed as a grandson of an unnamed manikongo. Elements of the imperial family are captured at the Battle of Mbwila in 1665, so the claim is not without merit.

King Diogo's successor, whose name is lost to description, was killed by the Portuguese, and replaced with a by-blow son, who was more pliant to Tomista interests, Afonso II. The common people of Kongo were enraged at his enthronement, and responded with uproar throughout the kingdom. Many Portuguese were kiln, and the royal port of Mpinda was closed to the Portuguese, completely ending the slave trade between Kongo and Portugal. Less than a year into this chaos, King Afonso II was murdered while notice mass, by his cadet, the next manikongo, Bernardo I. King Bernardo allowed the boycott of Portuguese trade to continue, while quietly reestablishing relations with Lisbon. King Bernardo I was killed warring against the Yaka, in 1567. The next manikongo, Henrique I was drawn into a war in the eastern part of the country, where he was killed, leaving the government in the hands of his stepson Álvaro Nimi a Lukeni lua Mvemba. He was incoronate as Álvaro I, "by vulgar consent," according to some witnesses.

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