Word: tribalized
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...country he inherited 37 years ago was not only backward and riven by tribal conflict but notoriously unstable: there had not been a single peaceful succession since Cyrus the Great in the 6th century B.C. In the two decades before his army officer father, Reza Shah, seized power in a military coup in 1921, there had been five different Shahs, a civil war and several coups d'état. In 1941 the Shah's father, a German sympathizer, was forced to abdicate when the Allies needed a secure route to channel war supplies to Russia. British and Soviet forces occupied...
Next, in Swahili, he would urge tribal unity on the country. Finally, in Kikuyu, he would tell his own tribe's people that he was still virile. That always evoked loud cheers...
...swamp appropriately called Bogside. Nor were Catholics?even when they became a majority in Derry?ever allowed to play any major role in the city's administration. When, in 1968, Catholic civil rightists did the unthinkable by marching through this Protestant inner sanctum, their defiance touched off a tragic tribal war that has engulfed all Northern Ireland. Yet after ten years of bloodshed, the city that served as the fuse for war may have found the balm for peace, as Derry Protestants and Catholics set an example for the rest of Northern Ireland by attempting to share power...
...wrote Facing Mount Kenya, describing the life and customs of the Kikuyu in a golden, pre-European past. The book contained a photograph of a bearded Kenyatta carrying a spear and wearing a blue monkey cloak slung over his shoulder?all fabricated to make him look more like a tribal elder than a Western student. He was, as British Author Elspeth Huxley once observed, "a showman to his fingertips...
...truth, the council action was far less than that-and it was immediately attacked by other black leaders. "What do people in the tribal trust lands know about these changes while the war rages around them?" demanded John Maposa, an independent M.P. "What do they know about swimming pools and theaters?" Even the publicity secretary of Muzorewa's own United African National Council, David Mukome, argued that the new program had "just scratched the surface of the problem of discrimination...