Word: chieftains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tribe," like "native," is objectionable to us Africans and especially to Nigerians from densely-populated and well-established societies. What you describe as "tribal" robe is more correctly one kind of national robe or dress, and although I happen to be an Owerri Ibo, and a hereditary leader or chieftain from Obibi-Ezena, a territory in Owerri Division, my hopes for the future are for one Nigerian nation...
Through Nigeria and the Belgian Congo, north to Egypt, across Pakistan and India to Burma, the tireless ambassador made tens of thousands of friends. Gifts were pressed on him-a leopard skin in India, Olympic laurels in Greece, a chieftain's crown in Nigeria...
Most of the University's foreign students probably dream at times of an eventual career in politics or government service. But Ph.D. candidate Eze Anyanwu Oguen II of Obibi-Ezena, Nigeria, has already realized that ambition in spectacular fashion--at 24 he is a Nigerian tribal chieftain, the hereditary ruler of thousands of Africans...
...mountain district of Aures, terrorists stopped a car containing a kaid (rural chieftain) who was also a French army captain, and a young French husband and wife who were teachers. They clubbed the kaid to a pulp, then killed the Frenchman, then stabbed and raped the young woman, who survived and was rescued...
...problems and irritations besetting the Kikuyu than sixtyish Arundel Gray Leakey, a resident of Kenya for close to half a century. Like his better-known cousin, L.S.B. Leakey, the world's topmost authority on Kikuyu manners and morals and official interpreter at the trial of Mau Mau Chieftain Jomo Kenyatta, Gray Leakey had been accepted into the Kikuyu tribe as a "blood brother" and spoke the native language as readily as he did English. Refusing to believe that Mau Mau would harm either himself or his family, he never carried a gun as he made the rounds...