Word: tribalized
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...months, Lt. Col. Tokubu Gowon, head of Nigeria's military government, has been struggling to prevent tribal antagonisms from ripping apart his West African nation. Until two weeks ago, his efforts seemed futile. The leaders of Nigeria's four ethnic regions seemed unable to agree on a place to meet, much less on a way to keep the tottering federal government on its feet. Then, suddenly, Gowon and the four regional heads dropped everything and took off for Accra, Ghana. After two whirlwind days of secret negotiations at one of Kwama Nkrumah's old villas, the five men, gushing optimism...
Nigeria's present crisis is rooted in tribal tensions which have been maturing for decades. The most violent antagonism is between the progressive Ibos, who dominate Nigeria's Eastern Region, and the less-educated Hausas, a Moslem people from the vast and largely arid Northern Region. After World War II, the Ibos, whose Eastern home is badly overpopulated, migrated north in droves to take advantage of the opportunities offered by their underdeveloped and underpopulated neighbor. The Ibos soon dominated major northern industries and captured crucial transportation and communications jobs. The Hausas, frustrated by their inability to complete with the "foreigners...
...anything. The ethnic segregation of the country will take years to overcome--if it can be overcome at all--and until it is, any expression of political solidarity would be largely artificial. On the other hand, forcing the centralization of Nigeria could do a great deal of harm. With tribal hostilities still intense, political integration and the consequent tribal intermingling could spark a repetition of last October's devastating riots...
...both he and South African authorities viewed as dangerous elements. As for the young King, Chief Jonathan seems inclined to forgive him once things quiet down-provided he immediately mends his ways. Otherwise, hinted some government leaders, they will depose Moshoeshoe and choose a new King from among the tribal chieftains...
...wrote, "seemed in his very person to embody the national decay he supposed himself to be confuting. He exuded a flavor of mothballs." Churchill, whose writings were "gaseous and overwritten," became a "kind of totem." In his old age, he was "produced as totems are, to keep up tribal morale." As for liberalism, said Muggeridge, it is "really just a death wish. We liberals are so made that anyone who wants to murder us is a hero and anyone foolish enough to be on our side is a villain...