Word: tribesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rush to the Future. In a babel of 300 or more languages and dialects ranging from the clipped accents of the Oxford graduate to the grunts and tongue-clicks of the most backward Bantu tribesman, the 130 million-odd natives of Middle Africa are demanding a voice in the determination of their own future-and getting it at a pace that would have been thought absurd and impossible a generation...
...coast. But the fact that, beyond a trickle of gold and ivory, the marauding chieftains of the interior had only human bodies to offer in trade was evidence of the real poverty of the people within-an ill-fed, disease-and fear-ridden race. To the African tribesman, whatever his ancestry or point of origin, the realities of life were pretty much the same all over the land. They consisted primarily of the village and the bush-the clearing in the forest where the tribal family had pitched its camp for a week or a day or a season...
...faster than they want to, how to live and work together. Those who proclaim that the white man's day is done, and are convinced that the African is ready to take over without help, speak too quickly. Without British aid and guidance, Ghana's ambitious Twi Tribesman Nkrumah could never have founded his nation, and he is the first to admit it. "If the British were to leave tomorrow," says a leader of the Nigerian independence movement, "I would be the first one down on the docks asking them to leave their clothes and their shoes behind...
...days passed, a flurry of rumors swirled like the desert sands. An Iranian gendarmery column reported itself close on the heels of a group of native women and children believed to have the foreign woman among them: a nomad tribesman told of seeing a white-faced woman riding on muleback. The governor of remote Iranshahr reportedly got a message from Dadshah himself, saying Mrs. Carroll was "alive and well'' and offering to free her if granted amnesty. A doctor and nurse, sent by the U.S. embassy in Teheran, hurried to the spot. This week, in a desert gully...
...Kwame Nkrumah, born a Twi tribesman in a mud-hut village, graduate of Pennsylvania's Lincoln University ('39), leader since 1947 of his country's surge to get independence from the British, struck a higher note: "Do not listen to these madmen who talk to you of cocoa and corruption," he argued. "They simply hide the fact that they do not want independence for our country...