Word: tribalized
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Black headlines last week told South Africans of the troubles elsewhere. RACES IN U.S. ON COLLISION COURSE, announced the Natal Mercury, while the Johannesburg Star gave prominence tO THE TRIBAL WAR IN NIGERIA. In the bright and busy nation at Africa's southern tip, however, such difficulties seemed far away. Topless nighties were the talk of Cape Town. In Johannesburg, where last month's antique-car rally had drawn 69 entrants-from a 1907 Diatto-Clement to a 1938 Bugatti-the city was debating whether the miniskirt should be banned, and the ballet season began with performances...
...everyday occurrence in the U.S. It is also a gnawing problem for Great Britain, now flooded with Negro and Indian immigrants. In the past decade, 28 new African nations have gone through the upheaval of change from white to black rule, and many are now beset by shattering tribal conflicts. But nowhere has the violence of one race against another reached the proportions of the apartheid of South Africa. It is not the bloody violence of hurled bricks and broken bones, but it is violence nonetheless-the moral violence of oppression imposed by a dominating minority. To most...
...govern themselves than with the conditions under which they have been forced to govern. The nations that they took over were artificial, their boundaries carved out arbitrarily in the days when the European powers were grabbing colonies as fast as they could, paying no attention to the hundreds of tribal lines that make up the true political map of Africa...
...last January's military coup, but Nigerians last week had ample cause to recall his warning. Another coup had just rocked the nation, and as the details began to emerge, they confirmed the fears that Nigeria, traditionally torn by regional rivalries (see map), had gone through another violent tribal uprising. As a nation, in fact, Nigeria seemed perilously near disintegration...
Panic in Lagos. The coup was a bloody affair. In the Western regional capital of Ibadan, where Ironsi had gone to plead for national unity before a meeting of tribal chiefs and emirs, Northern officers kidnaped him from the governor's palace and ordered him at gunpoint into a military Land Rover; his body was reportedly discovered last week outside a nearby village. At the army barracks at Ikeja, near the Lagos international airport, Northerners shot down every Ibo officer they could find, pursued others through Lagos itself, causing widespread panic in the capital; after one shooting incident, dozens...