Word: tribalized
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...south, in Rwanda, tribal tensions that had been building for decades erupted into murder. In Ghana, where he was entertaining Red China's Chou Enlai, Kwame Nkrumah worked relentlessly toward his goal of achieving a one-party dictatorship. In the Congo, the old bogy of secession once again threatened. And on the 34th day of independence for the clove-scented island of Zanzibar, revolt spilled hopes and blood into the azure Indian Ocean...
Each time the troubled Congo settles into something resembling normality, a new revolt shatters its fragile unity. Last week the government rushed off troop reinforcements to Kwilu province, a rich agricultural area 250 miles east of Leopoldville, where some 500 Communist-supplied tribal guerrillas were on the rampage. The leftist insurgents controlled about one-third of the territory, had burned and looted a palm-oil plantation, administration buildings and schools. A curfew was imposed on the panic-stricken provincial capital of Kikwit, and the families of four U.S. missionaries were hastily evacuated from their posts, 22 miles from the city...
...have the luck to be colonized," is a standard Liberian joke, and it is true that there were no imperial rulers to leave behind post offices and palaces, schools and hospitals. The population, which the government estimates at around 2,000,000, consists of a 99% tribal majority living in primitive isolation in the back country and a 1% governing minority called Americo-Liberians, descended from a group of freed U.S. slaves sent to the Pepper Coast of Africa with the backing of President James Monroe, the U.S. Congress and philanthropic organizations...
...region, where nomadic shiftas (raiders) from Somalia have recently stepped up their attacks on a part of Kenya that is inhabited by Somalis. The government set up a five-mile-wide buffer strip along the ill-defined border, where, it claimed, shiftas "steal cattle, beat women, threaten to murder tribal chiefs and others"; last week four tribesmen were killed and eight were injured in one raid. Kenya's Somalis have repeatedly asked to be annexed to Somalia. To prevent their secession and fight off the raiders, one Kenya politician has urged the government to send former Mau Mau terrorists...
...typically African one-party state, but probably not in so virulent a form as Ghana or Guinea. No one can ignore the difficulties ahead-the uneasiness of the remaining white settlers, the fears of the Asians who control most of the nation's commerce, the age-old tribal rivalries that could explode into separatism or tribal...