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Edward Festus Makuka Nkoloso was a resident of Zambia. He joined the British forces in World War II and served as a sergeant in the signal corp. After the war he became translator for the Northern Rhodesian government. He was also a grade school teacher and opened a new school which was purportedly shut down by British authorities. He then joined the resistance movement. He was arrested and imprisoned in 1956 and 1957.