Word: mali
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...form of patriarchal oppression, characterized by "the feeling of being overpowered and thoroughly dominated by those you are duty bound to respect." About 25 countries in Africa engage in mutilation: an estimated 98% of women are "circumcised" in Djibouti and Somalia, 90% in Ethiopia, 80% in Sudan, 75% in Mali. Walker and her allies have called for change not only in American law but also in the way African nations enforce their legal bans against the tradition...
...hairstyle, why you get that hairstyle, is that punk rock, is that Mohican, are you a Mohawk? No, when they say that, I'm honored, because I'm proud to be along with the Mohican Indians and all that, but there's a tribe in Africa, the country of Mali, that wear their hair this way, they're called the Mandinke warriors. I trace it through the National Geographic Magazine, so you know they don't tell no lie. That wasn't in People magazine, be better than your People magazine, but so the hairstyle like I said...
...Mali has a new democratic government, but in Niamey, Niger, there is neither a free democracy nor an exuberant spirit. A military general is the head of state, but has been stripped of most of his power by a national assembly. Political leaders seem convinced that a move to democracy, perhaps next year, is the only hope for peace and a better future. Peace in both Mali and Niger is threatened by Tuareg rebels, pastoral nomads who have suffered from years of drought and feel that their plight has been ignored by their central governments...
...Mali, Liberia and Congo have announced legal moves to recover assets they say were stolen under previous one-party regimes. In the case of Mali, the Swiss Foreign Ministry has decided to reroute part of its country's aid to Mali to pay for Swiss lawyers -- clever rerouting -- to investigate whether Swiss aid money was wrongfully deposited in Swiss banks during the 23-year reign of deposed President Moussa Traore. Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida has a bolder if unrealistic idea: he suggested last year that African states might demand reparations from the West for the damage done by the slave...
...that ousted President Samuel Doe, Dowell flew in on a tiny Cessna that landed on a , makeshift airstrip. Nearby lay the charred remains of a Russian-built transport plane that had failed to make such a landing a few days earlier. Dowell also visited Francophone Ivory Coast, Senegal and Mali. Michaels, meanwhile, fanned out as far afield as Zambia, Zaire, Burkina Fasso, Nigeria, Benin and Togo...