Despite the fact that Veronica was on the verge of giving birth, the situation was so dangerous that she and her toddler were to be evacuated. The rebels had captured the neighbouring town of Stanleyville and taken all the whites hostage. ItвЂ™s during their stay in Elizabetha that brutal civil war broke out. Six months after their arrival in the Congo, they were finally sent to Elizabetha, a remote palm oil plantation on the banks of the Congo River. Filled with enthusiasm for their new life the couple and their eleven-month-old son set off for an African adventureвЂ¦Д«ut Veronica arrived to find a newly independent country in chaos after the murder of the democratically elected Patrice Lumumba and she was forced to face realities such as food shortages and the internal politics and tension between the locals and the colonials in the capital, Leopoldville. Hammarskjld, Le Devoir, September 13, 1960, 6. The sheet music gives the title as 'Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)'. In the early 1960s, twenty five-year-old Veronica Cecil decided to move to the Congo with her husband when he was offered a good post at a large multi-national company. Bingo, Bango, Bongo, I Don't Wanna Leave the Congo Globe and Mail, August 2, 1960, 6. The song is sometimes also known as 'Bongo, Bongo, Bongo (I Don't Want to Leave the Congo)', from its first line of the chorus.

Kwela Books and Wordsworth are delighted to invite you to the launch of Veronica CecilвЂ™s memoir of living in the central Africa in the 1960s, Bongo Bongo Bongo, I DonвЂ™t Wanna Leave the Congo. so bongo, bongo, bongo, i dont wanna leave the congo, oh no no no no no bingo, bangle, bungle, im so happy in the jungle, i refuse to go dont want no.

Don t wanna leave the congo