Word: tribalized
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...warrior who sees the cannibalism is shaken so profoundly that he loses all sense of the Tightness of things, and sinks into melancholy. He takes no further part in tribal life, understanding in some half-mystical way that the time of the Washo is finished...
Burundi is a land of luxuriant beauty and berserk violence, torn apart by one of those tribal conflicts that are so elusive to an outsider's understanding. Determined to uphold a centuries-old feudal hegemony over 3,000,000 Hutu tribesmen, the well-armed Tutsi overlords, who number no more than 600,000, unleashed a violent pogrom last year. At least 80,000-and perhaps as many as 250,000-Hutus were killed. In May this year the slaughter revived in the southeastern part of the landlocked hill country (area: 10,747 sq. mi., smaller than Belgium). The latest...
Bloodstained panga knives and a slashed tribal drum lie in the middle of the dusty main street. A huge stork pecks for grubs in a gutted drygoods store, and weasels scurry in the debris. The main square is littered with broken rumba phonograph records-and an empty, bloodstained black shoe. From a pole at the town water pump flies the red-and-white flag of the Jeunesse Révolutlonnaire, the paramilitary youth groups who did most of the killing. The youth groups are run by the Tutsis' Party of Unity and National Progress (Uprona), which in effect rules...
...nearby cage, Micombero explained: "Just as in the U.S. and most other countries, it is the political majority that rules rather than an ethnic majority." Throughout the entire interview he did not use the words Tutsi or Hutu once, apparently in an attempt to emphasize his determination to eradicate tribal distinctions. "It is true that many have died in Burundi," he said. "My own people started the terrible troubles of last year, but they were stirred by outsiders. This year there is internal peace, broken only by external attacks." With emotion Micombero added: "I am trying to consolidate the unity...
...movie. It plays its easiest hands. What is fatal to Live and Let Die is the assumption that the audience will accept it at face value; the movie demands not attention but acquiesence. There is not a spontaneous moment to be found; every act, down to each chase and tribal Caribbean voodoo ritual is choreographed. In fact, the real star is dancer Geoffrey Holder, whose grace and rich Jamaican voice lend spirit to the voodoo scenes, and authenticity elsewhere...