Word: tribalized
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...STRONG BREED, by African Playwright Wole Soyinka, introduce two aspects of Nigerian life to Manhattan audiences. In the first play, Harold Scott is a devil of a "prophet" as he gathers his "flock" on the beaches. In the second, Scott gives a taut interpretation of a voluntary victim of tribal sacrifices...
...ancient tradition among the pagan Dayaks that collecting the severed heads of the enemy brings honor and virility. The guerrillas should have reckoned with this tradition when they butchered a dozen recalcitrant Dayaks in the village of Taum. Angry tribal powwows quickly followed throughout northwest Kalimantan, and runners were sent from village to village with bowls of blood, the signal to all Dayaks to get ready to use their homemade pistols, poison darts and machete-like parangs against the Chinese...
...rites-have never before been observed by a white witness, and anthropologists as well as the nonspecialist reader will find much that is unusual. Among other things, the Adamson enterprise is sure to lead to some fresh thinking about the African future and the inevitable clash between Westernization and tribal contentment...
...into three states, only one of which would be reserved for the Ibo. Weeks overdue, an Organization of African Unity mission recently came to Lagos to offer mediation. Its usefulness is limited because Ojukwu knows that the OAU regards secession as a dangerous precedent that might be tempting to tribal groups in other nations...
Mobutu has cracked down on warring tribes and moved to prevent secessionist governments. He has abolished the 22 provinces and replaced them with eight large provinces whose governors have neither full control of provincial police, as in the past, nor strong tribal ties. To reassure whites, he recently formed a "committee of intervention" composed of army men, government officials and whites whose job is to discourage racial strife. He has also removed the radical leadership of his wild Jeunesse (youth) movement, whose members last summer sacked the Belgian embassy and menaced whites in the streets of Kinshasa, the capital...