Word: tribalists
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...Nkrumah's opponent in the 1960 presidential election. A revered pioneer in Ghana's independence movement, Dr. Danquah was Nkrumah's first political mentor, but the two fell out and became bitter foes. Though police specified no charge, the government-controlled press called Danquah "a tribalist fiend and confusionist agent of Western imperialism...
...example, there is the "nation" of little, spade-bearded Albert Kalonji. A vain and cocky tribalist, Kalonji is an ex-railroad clerk who shortly after independence announced himself "king" of a rich diamond-mining area of South Kasai. which he called "Mining State." He is so superstitious that he cannot relax anywhere he goes until the local authorities produce an albino woman to kiss his hand, habitually carries a magic wand that is supposedly capable of killing any man with a wave...
...alliance is unlikely to survive for long. Kasavubu is a tribalist. His loyalties are rooted in his Bakongo tribe, and to preserve his regional influence, he fiercely defends his goal of a loose federal system for the Congo's government, even talks of setting up his region as a separate province. His parents sent him off to train for the priesthood at a mission school, but after five years of studying and teaching, he left to work as a clerk with a timber firm, then took a job with the colonial civil service. Later he took over leadership...