Word: tribalization
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...give his people a chronicle of their own past against which the new values of the emergent nation may be measured. In A Man of the People (TIME, Aug. 19, 1966), Novelist Achebe showed that life in the capital of his country did not always represent an advance on tribal society. In Arrow of God, he demonstrates the confusing effects of white man's law and religion on the jungle villages...
...with rivers, with trees, also with clouds--also with animals and birds. That seems to be restorative and life-giving; it seems to key the human being in bodily sense with the flux of existence. . . . My interest is in man as a very simple hunting and food-gathering, hopefully tribal creature...
...Pushtu. Inevitably, some ventures end in trouble. When corpsmen overcame a Senegalese tribal taboo against selling rice, farmers stopped growing it because the crop had lost its religious importance. An instructor watched helplessly while typewriters distributed in Ethiopia turned to junk for lack of care. Language training for the corpsmen was once squeezed into 50 hours, and one slum worker in a Chilean callampa did not have enough Spanish to ask how to get to the bus that would take him to work. "At times they miss the mark," Vaughn confesses. "And when they do, it's certain...
...this society," he comments. Almost half the population is composed of different minority groups, and it is this half that is most immune to Viet Cong influence and most strongly supports the government--now. Thieu and Ky's majorities on September 3, for example, came from the strongly tribal area of the Third Core...
...year. That one led to a revolt in Buganda and forced Obote to order his troops to storm the palace of King Freddie, the Kabaka of Buganda, who is now exiled in London. "One people, one destiny, one country, one Parliament and one government," demands Obote, who feels that tribalism had hopelessly fragmented his country. But Obote has also tried to win the people over. As a conciliatory gesture, he let almost 3,000 criminals and political prisoners out of jail to join in the ühuni (freedom) anniversary fete. He has won over many former opponents, including Freddie...