Word: tribalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the Ibos no longer dominate Nigerian commerce or the civil service as they did before the war, they are reconciled to the new order. Gowon is determined that neither they nor any other tribal group shall ever again attain such a preponderant role. "That is the road back to regional rivalry and despair," he says. "We must be proud of our origins, but work for true nationhood as Nigerians all together...
...most massive and systematic assaults on individualism, she also salvaged an era of epic hardship and courage from the limbo of censored history. The book began with Mandelstam's first arrest in 1934 for a poem that described the dictator as a tribal hetman savoring each death like a raspberry. Thereafter, the impoverished Mandelstams were hounded all over Russia by vengeful bureaucrats...
...Western Pyrenees since Paleolithic times, the round-faced, stocky Basques are probably Europe's first known people. In earlier periods they resisted the Romans, the Visigoths, the Moors and the Franks under Charlemagne. Similarly, the E.T.A. is now struggling to regain for the Basques their ancient, almost tribal traditions of self-government...
...both legs in a fall into a well, performed an airborne operation on a youngster savaged by a hyena, and saved the life of a Kenyan fisherman who nearly drowned when his dugout canoe overturned in the surf and an anchor pierced his arm. They routinely treat casualties of tribal warfare and those fortunate enough to live through attacks by crocodiles...
...Africa, tribal priestesses once braided their hair as a symbol of their religious powers, and warriors plaited prior to battle. Modern-day American braiders have different motives. "It means black pride to me," says Clarence Dyas, a Los Angeles community relations supervisor. "Cats on the street used to look at a fellow strange if he braided his hair, but now everyone knows what it means." Other male braid buffs adopt the style for convenience. Explains Ray Allen, stylist at Soul Scissors, a Los Angeles black barbershop: "Braids are neater and a guy is more together in his appearance...