Word: tribalization
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None of the candidates represented a political party, and the native voting generally followed tribal lines, with the numerically strong Bakongo emerging on top. Although women could not vote, they could be candidates. One African woman was elected councilor; the two white women candidates were defeated. The Belgian authorities have agreed to "consult" with the newly elected councilors but not necessarily follow their recommendations. A colonial official explained: "We will allow them to make little mistakes-but not a big nonsense...
...slowly extend their influence. Their wealth, plus polygamy, enables them to win many young Catholic girls." Bishop Kiwanuka's second biggest problem: African nationalism, which is apt to view Christianity as a white man's weapon. The nationalist Bataka Party has sponsored an organized reversion to tribal forms of worship. Under Bishop Kiwanuka's leadership, 62,503 converts have joined his flock. "Even the young girls seduced into Moslem homes usually cling to their Catholic faith," he says. "At least they die as Catholics...
Premier M'bida, a devout Roman Catholic whose forehead is studded with blue tribal tattoos, journeyed recently into the heartland of the 120,000-member Bassa tribe, center of the spreading rebel movement. At Rebel Leader Um Myobe's birthplace, the Premier appealed to the natives: "Do not live like the Pygmies!" He urged them to come back to civilization, gave them ten days to come out of the jungle or be treated as rebels. By regrouping huts near roads, where they can be guarded, he hopes to maintain order, proceed with the slow evolution toward real...
...Naba ("Master of the Earth"), 53, sword-waving, plume-wearing emperor of the warlike French West African Mossi tribe (some 1,700 members), whose government council seated both a minister of war and of defeat (on the grounds that victory needs no diplomatic skill but defeat does), and whose tribal tradition demanded that he titularly declare war on the neighboring Soussou tribe every Wednesday morning and allow himself to be "persuaded" by tribal elders to postpone the expedition; after a short illness; in Ouagadougou, French West Africa...
...swamps to catch crocodiles with their bare hands; the barebreasted "debutantes of Kambaramba" skimmed along opal waters in narrow canoes at breathtaking speeds, and Headline-Hunter Thomas appeared every few feet to remind viewers of the "increasing perils." There were hackle-raising scenes of wizened, bedizened village elders carving tribal designs into the backs of young boys in manhood initiation rites, and, water-borne again, Lowell waving "Hi, there" at "wary and suspicious" natives. "We push on, and the navigation grows more dangerous," at last to reach the May River territory-scene of recent festivities where "the hosts...