Word: tribalized
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South Africa's Stuart Cloete (rhymes with rooty) is the author of three arresting historical romances about the 19th century Boer settlers and a well-informed study of black Africa (The African Giant). Now his tribal milieu is Victorian England, where white slavery and prostitution flourished underground because a polite society pretended that sexual desire was sinful and disgusting. Cloete's hero (or villain) is Edward Lenton, a hypocritical English country gentleman who seduces five of his children's governesses, then ships the sixth off to be broken in at his favorite London whorehouse. Meanwhile...
...root, as usual, was the tribal rivalry that has been tearing the nation apart all year. The men of the 5th are mostly Hausas of the Moslem North, which has been carrying on a vendetta against the thousands of Christian Ibos who have come from the Eastern Region to live. Aroused by reports that Hausas had been mistreated in the East, the soldiers surged out of their barracks to exact vengeance. They...
Brown relates that there was a "spooky silence" as the menacing Africans gathered along the beach, but then as the boys catch the first wave and stand up, the Africans burst into reverent shrieks and shouts. The noise frightens the surfers, who fear they have violated some "tribal taboo" and are about to be pursued by natives "carrying the biggest forks they'd ever seen...
...engined Beechcraft Baron light executive plane. And from the vast Kalahari Desert just outside of town, a blinding sandstorm that nearly ripped Botswana's new black-white-and-blue flag from the pole before it could be tied down. As fireworks illuminated the swirling sand clouds overhead, a tribal witch doctor swept back his cockerel headdress, tucked his baboonskin shirt between his knees, and flashed a mossy grin. "There will be rain," he predicted. "Everyone will...
...Oxonian who has become one of Africa's staunchest advo cates of racial harmony. Eighteen years ago in London, Seretse cast away his paramount chieftainship of the powerful Bamangwato tribe to marry a blonde English clerk named Ruth Williams. The marriage embarrassed both Seretse's despotic uncle, Tribal Regent Tshekedi Khama, and the Labor government of Clement Attlee, which hustled Seretse into an exile that lasted eight years...