Word: tribal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the time came to vote in Nigeria's first national elections last week, the candidates were too tired and hoarse for last-minute attacks on opponents, instead led their numbed election-eve audiences in singing tribal ballads, on the plausible theory that enough was enough...
...Accra turned out last week to greet Queen Elizabeth's husband, Prince Philip. Tribal chiefs sat under ceremonial umbrellas at the airport. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was there, beaming, and 150,000 people lined the streets to shout "Akwaaba" (welcome). There were many kind references to Queen Elizabeth, whose pregnancy prevented her being there. But Prince Philip could hardly travel anywhere in the Commonwealth and find less evidence of her influence. His official cavalcade rolled slowly down Kwame Nkrumah Avenue and turned into Kwame Nkrumah Circle. A huge statue of Nkrumah confronted him at Parliament House. Before Prince Philip...
...state-run cooperatives, which buy farmers' products and sell them finished goods, are slowly pushing private merchants out of business. Each Sunday, workers are induced "voluntarily" to build roads, schools and clinics in a scheme grandly titled "Human Investment," and Touré is working hard to rip up tribal roots and create a Guinea nationalism. By requiring English as well as French instruction in schools, he hopes to create a bilingual nation that one day can lead both English-and French-speaking West Africa. Such a nation, Touré was insisting last week, would not be Communist...
Gods into Saints. Bahia's African folk tradition has survived over the centuries through adaptation, absorbing lesser cultures when possible, going underground when necessary. South American Indian pottery skills and myths were taken over wholesale by the Negro slaves. But to protect their African tribal gods, they resorted to subterfuge. They gave them Christian cover names (Oxossi, the god of hunters, became St. George), then told their masters that they were worshiping the saints, but in their own way. This African subculture still claims 10 million followers for its religious dance rites, has permeated Brazilian culture with its music...
...Yorkers had an old tradition, something like a tribal practice, I suppose," says he, "of blaming their recurrent ills on the latest strangers to populate the slums. The Irish and the Germans, the Italians and the Jews have now become respectable, but it looks as if the Puerto Ricans will enable the old tradition to survive...