Word: tribalization
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...quietly held an election of its own in the rolling lands and rough mountains of Montana. Among the victors: Johnny Woodenlegs of Lame Deer, Mont., re-elected President; John Stands in the Timber, John Kills on Top Sr., August Spotted Elk, William Hollowbreast, Clarence Spotted Wolf, members of the tribal council...
...Plateau. Faithful to the classic principle of "divide and rule," Belgian colonial administrators carefully preserved the tribal system. The result was a painful anachronism: a people dominated by primitive loyalties suddenly presented with the tools of modern industrial society and the trappings of independence. To Moise Tshombe and his Katangans. no one in Leopoldville has any legitimate interest in gleaming little Elisabethville (pop. 177,000), the Congo's second largest city, where today supermarkets and the luxurious Hotel Leopold II rise from the cool, 5,000-ft.-high plateau. Nor to them does any "outsider" have any right...
...Congo the week began in deceptive calm. Cautiously, Belgian merchants crept back into the cities, taking down the shutters from their shop windows in hasty compliance with the Congo Cabinet's decree that stores and factories must reopen by August 8 or be confiscated. Reports of continuing tribal warfare among the Baluba and Lulua in the Kasai interior hardly ruffled Léopoldville's street crowds. Here and there local commanders of the Congo's restive Force Publique set up as semi-independent potentates. One Sabena pilot on a routine flight to Stanleyville suddenly heard...
Answering an obviously sympathetic audience, the African dodged questions on the role of the Arab northern tier in a pan-African future, and possible tribal and regional conflicts in the developing continent. When a girl asked if Communism posed a threat to Uganda and what was being done to combat its influence, others in the audience hissed, and Mukasa smilingly said that Communism finds "no fertile ground" in his country...
...Indeed tribalism is Africa's most potent reality [June 27]. Why do our African political leaders not realize this? Why do they fear it and try to ignore it or stamp it out? Why can it not be used to create a national legislative body where all tribes will be represented on a tribal basis? The tribes' individual rights would be guaranteed, and their respective potentialities developed while they worked together for the common good. I am a Masai of Tanganyika. We are a pastoral people, and we do not want our highland grazing areas taken from...