Petros Chintankwa

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Petros Chintankwa (died 1972) was the husband to Alice Lenshina. Chintankwa was a cousin of Lenshina's first husband, Gipson Nkwale. After Nkwale died, Lenshina was cleansed and inherited by Chintakwa, in accordance with the Bemba custom.[1][2] Chintankwa and Lenshina had five children.[2]

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  1. Retracing Lenshina's followers by Mwala Kalaluka
  2. 2.0 2.1 Dictionary of African Biography, Volume 6 by By Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Henry Louis Gates, p487