Word: tribalization
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Before dawn the recorded radio beat of tom-toms sounded out across the cocoa plantations and straw-hut villages of the Gold Coast, awakening hundreds of African officials and thousands of voters, the tribal cry of darkest Africa summoning everybody to an election. All day the voters calmly queued up outside the polling huts, picked up their ballots, had their thumbs smeared with indelible ink to prevent duplicate voting, walked into the huts and dropped their ballots into boxes...
Through the four weeks of campaigning, tensions heightened. Nkrumah's opposition stumped upcountry Ashanti and the Northern Territories. The Territories, on the edge of the Sahara, are mostly Moslem; the center region of Ashanti is run by tribal chieftains who recognize that the city slickers down in the capital of Accra threaten ancient tribal ways. The new N.L.M. party talked up a federal system with decentralized powers. The Gold Coast is only about as big as Nebraska, however, with only 4,500,000 people, and Nkrumah argued that "regionalism must not replace nationalism...
...friends. Last fall they came to him with a new sort of problem. Gas and oil had been discovered on their land, and they could soon expect to have $7,000,000 in royalties to spend. Last week, on the advice of Nonagenarian Faris, the Tribal Council deposited in the First National Bank of Albuquerque $1,000,000 in a special trust to ensure the tribe's future. The $40,000-a-year income it produces will be used as school and college scholarships for the Jicarillas-boys, girls and adults. The largest tribal trust of its kind...
...least, these are all his worries until Dr. Andrew Butler, an English anthropologist "with a class of hair like an old nest," puts up at Mangan's Hotel for some rest after a breakdown from overwork on the tribal customs of the Congo. All might have been well had Dr. Butler not written a feature article for the London press. Butler included a description of nuns from the Patrickstown convent jumping over fires on Midsummer Eve and made some unfortunate references to some of the rites of The Golden Bough in connection with these innocent goings...
...tribes of Northern Rhodesia have lived in a broken society since the white district commissioners weakened the authority of the tribal chiefs. White authorities and missions dealt with witchcraft as though it did not exist; Lenshina Mulenga fights it effectively, gives natives the sense of belonging to their own church, where salvation is in the here...