Word: tribalized
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...Vorster's strategy seems to be to complete the original South African blueprint for "separate development" of the races known as apartheid (Afrikaans for "separateness"). Hoping to perpetuate the political power of the whites, who form only 17% of the South African population, the regime plans to convert nine tribal homelands within South Africa's borders into "independent states." South Africa's blacks will be assigned citizenship ? including the 10 million who live not in the homelands but in "white" South Africa. Simultaneously, they would be stripped of their South African citizenship...
...degrees of involvement in the region's gathering racial, political and ideological confrontation. Some, like Rwanda and Burundi, which are both the poorest and most densely populated African countries (total pop. 8,300,000 in an area smaller than West Virginia), are too wrapped up in their own tribal rivalries to pay much attention to tensions elsewhere between blacks and whites. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, the grand old man of African liberation, has kept Kenya out of the Rhodesian confrontation, perhaps because of the frustration he experienced while trying to mediate the Angolan civil war last year. Uganda...
Nkomo has strong support in the rural tribal regions and a tightly organized core of followers elsewhere. He is a friend of Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere and Botswana's Seretse Khama, and he is at least on speaking terms with the front-line five's two Marxist firebrands, Samora Machel of Mozambique and Agostinho Neto of Angola. With ties to both the minority Matabele and majority Mashona tribes and a solid political organization all over Rhodesia, Nkomo seems well placed...
...ritual chants and dances performed weekly by the Navajo men and women are centuries old, but the octagonal sanctuary where the tribal ceremonies take place is spanking new. With its earth floor and eternal flame at the base of a six-story building, the sanctuary is the center of a $15 million campus designed by Indian medicine men and paid for largely by federal funds. Navajo Community College, which moved to its new 1,200-acre campus at Tsaile in northeastern Arizona three years ago, is the first entirely Indian-operated and -controlled institution for higher learning on a reservation...
...N.C.C. offers 23 courses in the Navajo language, history and culture. Students learn from Indian teachers how to shape clay without a wheel, sew moccasins with sheep sinews or shape baskets with sumac fibers. Andrew Natonabah is one of four medicine men who teach Navajo psychology, medicine, dances and tribal lore, and who often cure mentally disturbed students "by dancing them free of evil spirits." Says he: "When they leave here, our students understand more about their culture and are better prepared to meet the white man's world...