Word: hausa
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Despite his youth, "Jack" Gowon was not a bad choice. A spartan, British-trained officer who neither smokes nor drinks (his hobby is bird watching), Gowon, although a Northerner, is not a member of the region's dominant Hausa and Fulani tribes. Nor is he a Moslem; his father, a member of the smaller Birom tribe, is a Methodist missionary. But his task is not easy...
...Reading about the South Vietnamese Buddhists [June 10], whose primary purpose seems to be to foster instability in their country, I have come to wonder whether "bonze," the title of their leaders, is a derivative of banza, a Hausa word of West Africa meaning "emptiness, vanity, worthlessness, cheapness...
...diplomatic, no final commitments and always a foot in each camp." And despite its democratic facade, Nigerian politics is little more than a raw power struggle between two shifting alliances of regional and tribal parties: the ruling National Nigerian Alliance (N.N.A.), whose power base lies among the proud, haughty Hausa and Fulani peoples of the north, and the opposition United Progressive Grand Alliance (U.P.G.A.), which is strongest in the three territories of east and west...
...analogies drawn, all the Hausa words used, and all the definitions are entirely authentic," Mr. Muffet says. "I apologize in advance for any undue Irreverence...
...mercurial, London-trained barrister who became opposition leader in Lagos when his party lost the 1959 federal elections. Awolowo then ranged his people firmly against the middle-road coalition government, composed of the conservative Northern People's Congress (NPC), supported by the proud, primitive Fulani and Hausa tribes of the North, and the progressive National Convention of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC), which is based in the East...