Word: tribalized
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...Houphouet-Boigny. The Ivory Coast was celebrating its first anniversary of independence after more than a century of French rule. Arriving in Abidjan, capital of the New Mexico-sized nation of coffee and cocoa plantations, Attorney General Kennedy was met at an airport reception with red carpet and tribal dances. Manfully (since he facetiously says that it took him eight years to complete second-year French in school). Bobby Kennedy delivered a graceful speech in French. (He was helped by phonetic notes on words like "ann-day-pon-dons" and "Hoo-fwet Bwa-nyee...
...mother of seven, ducked away from the protocol circuit to tour the Ivory Coast's back-country villages with the same nice-to-see-you smile and handshake that had served his brother Jack so well in the 1960 campaign wilds of West Virginia. Bobby enthusiastically applauded a tribal stilts dancer, was offered another village's prized possession-a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red Label. Cried Bobby: "Vive la Côte d'lvoire!" Replied a tribesman in perfect English: "Very good...
...ways. Throughout the country's vast and still largely untamed jungle, the Indian stands dangerously close to extinction. When Portuguese Sea Captain Pedro Cabral discovered Brazil in 1,500, the lush tropical land teemed with 3,000,000 Indians of some 2,500 tribes. Today its tribal Indian population is down to an estimated 78,000 and falling steadily every year...
...them with the late Joyce Gary's African books, which may not seem attuned to the latest news, but which even today make the news more intelligible. Gary fought in the Nigeria Regiment in World War I, later served as a magistrate dealing with the everyday crises of tribal life. Out of this experience came Mister Johnson (published in 1939), by all odds the best novel ever written about Africa, and An American Visitor (issued in 1933 but only now published in the U.S.), which is not up to Mister Johnson, but proves again that Africa reached Gary...
...American abstraction, a believer in the view that what is savage is unspoiled. What is best in the book is its ring of truth. The natives and the British whites speak and act with absolute naturalness. Gary describes the Nigerian landscape, soldiers on the march, and a tribal attack with casual excellence. And he misses few of the ironies of a situation in which imperfect Christians try to perfect the savages...