Word: tribalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Laikipia Plateau, and the baboons straggle in from their day's browsings among the acacia flowers. They sit and socialize on the lower rocks of their high kopje, grooming one another with a sweet absorption, playing with their babies. Like almost everyone and everything in Africa, they seem profoundly tribal. Another troop of baboons arrives, 100 yards away, and each tribe stares at the other with a nervous intensity across the lovely evening light...
...pamphlets, mainly at government health centers. Some TV commercials may begin appearing irregularly by March, but the Japanese are already committed to condoms: 70% of couples rely on prophylactics for birth control. In Africa, where AIDS campaigns are most needed, they are sadly least in evidence. Because of tribal taboos, societal objections to sexually explicit language and the lack of public communications networks, even medical workers are frequently ignorant about how the disease can spread. The World Health Organization predicts that by the turn of the century, AIDS in Africa will have claimed 5 million lives...
...political organization made up mainly of members of the Zulu tribe, died earlier this month after fire bombs struck their homes. Outside Port Elizabeth, a vengeful mob last week murdered two youths in the Kwanobuhle township. Nearly 80 gold miners have been killed during the past ten weeks in tribal battles among black workers...
France, which ruled Chad in colonial times, is taking the lead for its Western allies in the desert war, while the U.S. is sending weaponry. Over the years Chad (pop. 5.2 million) has suffered from a variety of tribal and political conflicts directed against the government in N'Djamena, which Paris has always backed. At the same time, a force of some 8,000 Libyan troops has been fighting in the north alongside the Chadian rebels...
Olebogeng, 25, is going home to Bophuthatswana, one of the tribal homelands created by South Africa in which a total of 3 million blacks have been resettled over the past 20 years. Of the 450,000 blacks who toil in South Africa's gold mines, 163,000 come from the impoverished homelands, where work is scarce and the pay pitiful. An additional 195,000 come from the neighboring countries of Mozambique, Malawi, Lesotho and Swaziland, where jobs are equally rare. Leaving their families behind, the miners spend most of the year living in cramped dormitories and working for wages that...