Word: tribalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time the blue (for freedom) and white (for peace) flag was hoisted in public, the flagpole snapped in two. Ciskei may not be paradise, but it is undoubtedly persistent. When the black "homeland" threw itself a raucous second-birthday party, the flagpole stood firm. As motorcycle teams, tribal dancers and drum majorettes performed in the local stadium, President Lennox Leslie Wongoma Sebe, 57, Homburg-hatted and morning-suited, cruised through the streets of Bisho, his capital city, in a black Cadillac. Then, guarded by a gang of security men in ill-fitting suits and sunglasses, Sebe led a flag...
...troubled territory has been a problem off and on since the country achieved independence in 1980, when rivalry between the two former guerrilla confederates, Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, broke into virtual tribal warfare. Matabeleland is the homeland of the Matabele tribe and of Nkomo, and Mugabe's victory in the nationwide elections moved many of Nkomo's supporters to become rebellious. Nkomo himself was sacked from the Cabinet two years ago, after he was accused of plotting to overthrow the government. The territory is also plagued by armed bandits who kill as well as plunder. Over the past...
...dancers obviously enacted a story, but the plot was almost usurped by the dancing itself. The dancers spun their arms in figure eights, lifting each other higher and higher, lunging, Kicking and contracting. The music added other dimensions to the work as when it broke off into a tribal beat in the middle...
Directly, Bennie Atencio, the tribal secretary and brother of Domingo Atencio, called on Albuquerque Attorney Scott Borg. The photographer had been identified as Michael Heller, who had published the photographs of the Santo Domingo in the New Mexican, a Santa Fe newspaper. Atencio told Borg that "they wanted to sue them and sue them to make them hurt...
...struggles preceding independence, Toure allied himself with the movement for African nationalism. He was instrumental in abolishing Guinea's tribal chieftaincies, which he considered corrupt, and in establishing more than 4,000 elected village councils. When the nation's first election was held in 1958, he was swept into office. "revolutionary socialism" to industrialize the economy, and he turned to the Soviet Union for assistance. But Guinea remained beset by chronic underproduction, inflation and black-marketeering. In the mid-'70s, Toure made a bow toward the West...