Word: tribalized
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Though the Ibos no longer dominate Nigerian commerce or the civil service as they did before the war, they are reconciled to the new order. Gowon is determined that neither they nor any other tribal group shall ever again attain such a preponderant role. "That is the road back to regional rivalry and despair," he says. "We must be proud of our origins, but work for true nationhood as Nigerians all together...
That is no easy prescription for Africa's most populous nation. Its nearly 70 million people are divided into three major ethnic groups-the Yorubas, Hausas and Ibos-and some 250 tribal offshoots. To reduce the power of the dominant tribes, Gowon, who belongs to the small Anga tribe, split Nigeria's four federal regions into twelve states. He allows them to handle their internal affairs but intervenes discreetly to make sure all tribes are consulted on local government decisions. Although Gowon rose to power as strongman of an army coup eight years ago, he believes that...
...most massive and systematic assaults on individualism, she also salvaged an era of epic hardship and courage from the limbo of censored history. The book began with Mandelstam's first arrest in 1934 for a poem that described the dictator as a tribal hetman savoring each death like a raspberry. Thereafter, the impoverished Mandelstams were hounded all over Russia by vengeful bureaucrats...
...Western Pyrenees since Paleolithic times, the round-faced, stocky Basques are probably Europe's first known people. In earlier periods they resisted the Romans, the Visigoths, the Moors and the Franks under Charlemagne. Similarly, the E.T.A. is now struggling to regain for the Basques their ancient, almost tribal traditions of self-government...
...both legs in a fall into a well, performed an airborne operation on a youngster savaged by a hyena, and saved the life of a Kenyan fisherman who nearly drowned when his dugout canoe overturned in the surf and an anchor pierced his arm. They routinely treat casualties of tribal warfare and those fortunate enough to live through attacks by crocodiles...