Word: tribalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After an uneasy half-century under this arrangement, the age-old religious hatred, social injustice and tribal attitudes persist, making future peace a questionable prospect. In 1615 Barnaby Rich wrote in his Anatomy of Ireland: "The diseases of Ireland are many, and the sickness is grown to that of a contagion that is almost past cure." His admonition, sadly, is still relevant...
Amin, who seized power from Apolo Milton Obote in a coup last January, personally toured the region to talk up trousers. Some tribesmen heeded his pleas, but a cholera epidemic broke out a few days later, confirming an old tribal suspicion that clothes only hide disease. So far, the only Karamojongs Big Daddy has succeeded in dressing up are the 120 tribesmen who were tried and convicted of rioting at Moroto. They have been sentenced to six months in jail -in prison garb...
...Best. Within South West Africa, the Bantustan plan and the World Court's decision have been greeted with responses ranging from indifference to incomprehension. Few of the 96,000 whites-chiefly Afrikaners, Germans and Britons-doubt that South African rule is for the best. Among blacks, there is tribal loyalty but no feeling of nationhood. Says Dr. Romanus Kapungu, a doctor in canon law from Rome University and chief councilor of the Kavango tribal authority: "If you asked most of our people, they wouldn't know what all the fuss is about...
...maintain full employment, Mendelssohn says, the Egyptian rulers staggered construction starts; as work on one pyramid tapered off, another was begun. Pyramid building soon turned into an economic necessity, whether or not there was a pharaoh to be buried. Until that time, Egyptian society had consisted of loosely connected tribal units, each with its own god and social structure. By organizing enormous numbers of people into such a unifying task, writes Mendelssohn, the leaders of Egypt quickly and ingeniously achieved economic control over the populace. "In fact," he writes, "they invented the state, a form of centralized and efficient organization...
...organization also establishes "tribal units" in the hill-country to prepare tribes, many of which have already suffered at the hands of fortune seekers, for inevitably increasing contact with "civilization...