Word: tribalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blacks are not like your blacks. They are much closer to their primitive tribal origins. Tribal animosities and differences between black Africans-differences of language and culture-are profound. Given these differences, a unitary state would be torn by tribal hostilities. Possibly true...
...idea of "homelands" (quasi-independent territories for the blacks more or less based on tribal areas) is not as absurd as you usually make it out to be, because millions of black Africans do have deep attachments to the tribal areas where they were born and raised. True...
...West's. In any event, one must remember that in a sense Africa is our common past (through fossil finds of increasing antiquity, man's evolutionary origins have been traced to East Africa). Besides, there are intimations in Africa's remnants of unspoiled nature, of secure tribal life, that we have lost something in what we regard as our gains. But the greatest of these gains is indeed crucial: Western technology is an unprecedented equalizing force, largely erasing the differences of tradition, culture, race that white South Africans have enshrined as religion...
...political crossfire, terrorized black villagers are beaten, tortured or murdered by guerrillas if they refuse to help the cause, jailed and sometimes hanged by Rhodesian government forces if they do. Earlier this month, a 15-man security-force patrol tracked a team of guerrillas through the Ndanga Tribal Trust Land to Dabwe Kraal. When darkness fell, the troops climbed over a fence and heard the guerrillas addressing a crowd of villagers. The two sides exchanged fire before the guerrillas slipped away. The dead and wounded lay on the ground for nine hours before help arrived. When evacuation forces finally showed...
...playgoer were unfamiliar with the story, Serban's version might convince him that he had happened upon some weird and obscure tribal ritual...