Word: tribalization
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...trouble in South Africa is not simply black and white; it can also be black v. black. All over the land, and most particularly in the ramshackle black suburbs that now ring the great white cities, tribal jealousies fester. In native townships bearing such names as Zondi, Moroka and Shantytown-from which some 94,000 native workers stream each day into Johannesburg to work for the white man-Basutos, Bechuanas, Xhosas and Zulus live more or less segregated from one another under a government policy designed to preserve tribal instincts and to maintain the fiction that all native labor...
Prime Minister Balewa, who wore the red ribbon of a Commander of the British Empire, pleaded for unity among Nigeria's diversified tribal unities. On hand to approve his plea were the King of Lagos, resplendent in purple robes and a helmet-shaped crown of gold beads; turbaned Alhaji Ahmadu, leader of the Northern People's Congress; and Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, who made a spectacular entrance clad in a bright blue satin blouse, a draped skirt with a ten-yard train and a straw boater bedecked with 2-ft.-high feathers. Conspicuously absent was Eastern Leader Nnamdi...
Stop the Music! In Gallup, N. Mex., the Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial Association, after several weeks of rainy weather, sent out a plea to Pueblo Indians to cancel plans for some of their rain dances...
...years ago, when British Author Vincent (The Wise Man from the West) Cronin, who visited the Persian interior in hope of taking part in a spring migration of one tribe, found that its nomadic way had finally petered put. The Last Migration, largely based on interviews with tribal leaders, is Cronin's story of these nomads' decline and fall...
...skipped forward with their whopping bouquets, little groups here and there tried to spark pro-Soviet chants, but their efforts fell flat. Hastily, a band struck up a tune, the old nationalist Prussian Glory march. As Khrushchev finally launched into a speech, a husky Negro, resplendent in billowing orange tribal robes, burst through police lines, capered up to the platform and reached out at him. Kicked and pummeled back into the crowd by the horrified Ulbricht's cops, after he had managed to shake hands with Khrushchev, the man turned out to be no assassin, but a Nigerian student...