Word: tribalized
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Weeks pass beroe the PBH volunteers understand the tribe's particular schizophrenia. Women befriend them, confide a husband's concern about his brother who is picking oranges in California. A member of the Tribal Council confesses his complete inability to present the Havasupai's case to a government determined to go ahead with plans...
...volunteers realize, after a month, perhaps, that they can't "mobilize community interest" and solve Supai's problems. The Havasupai have begun to understand the decision they must make -- whether to commit themselves to maintaining the tribal ways in their canyon or to abandon Supai and follow the already-flown. But they postpone that decision...
National unity had been the question ever since the nation won independence in 1960, and it was no less a question after the rebels swept away the government of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Ironsi proposed to deal with the old bogy of tribal rivalry by demoting Nigeria's four semiautonomous regions to "provinces," and by banning the old regional parties. The new provisional military governors cracked down on "laziness" in the civil service, restricted the use of government vehicles, opened drives against bureaucratic corruption and bribery. One provincial governor even decreed that "everybody should love one another...
...scarcity of sophisticated military governors in Nigeria and the surfeit of lawyers, Cabinet ministers, journalists and savvy tribal chieftains would suggest that a constitutional structure may be the best means for carrying out this political task. So perhaps in time President Azikiwe will be recalled from London, Chief Obafemi Awolowo (the West's most popular Yoruba leader), will be released from Federal prison, and a new Federal Constitution will be drawn up to meet civilian demands...
...beneath the surface, Nigeria has long been roiled by fierce tribal undercurrents, originating from its four fiercely proud regions: the dominant Moslem North, where more than half the country's people live, the oil-rich Eastern area, and the more industrialized (asbestos and textiles) Western and Midwestern regions. Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa's ruling National Nigerian Alliance (N.N.A.) draws its strength from the North, and the opposition United Progressive Grand Alliance (U.P.G.A.) is powerful in the rest of the country...