Word: tribalized
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Political Potpourri. Out of this tribal nightmare must come a national cabinet, a prime minister and a chief of state in time for independence day on June 30; but bloody tribal fighting has raged for months through the Congo. Bitterest of all was in the land of the Lulua. Since the 19th century, when Arab slave raiders drove the frightened Baluba westward into Lulua territory, the Baluba had happily tilled Lulua soil in semi-serfdom in exchange for the right to remain in the area. Then last year, when whispers of Congolese independence filtered out from Leopoldville, the Baluba began...
...other areas other tribal groups were at loggerheads. In the Congo's western tip, around Leopoldville, Kasavubu and his Bakongo supporters refused to sit in the provincial assembly as a minority, decided to set up their own regional legislature. Jealous tribal leaders in the mineral-rich southeast, defeated at the polls, talked of setting up a separate province of their...
...Thus, tribalism may yet tear the vitals out of the new Congo before it even gets its start as a nation, just as it has been the political plague everywhere in Africa. For to conservative tribal rulers, democracy is a mysterious and not entirely welcome concept. Tribal elders do not like the idea of upstart youngsters challenging their authority in the tribe's affairs. Warrior clans, like the Lulua, whose hegemony was built with spears and brawn, are outraged to find themselves outvoted by the humble Baluba, who have adopted such unmanly professions as clerk or typist. Many tribes...
...African leaders everywhere, the men who organized the Mau Mau faced one basic difficulty in forging a nationalist spirit: for the ordinary African, a man's overriding loyalties are to his family and his tribe. By compelling Mau Mau members to violate not only Christian ethics but every tribal taboo as well, says Corfield, Mau Mau leaders deliberately reduced their victims to a state where a man who took the Mau Mau oath was cut off "from all hope, outside Mau Mau, in this world or the next." To achieve this, the Mau Mau leadership forced its recruits, voluntary...
...only a temporary victory. All over Africa there is a revolt against Christianity-sometimes as xenophobic nationalism, sometimes as a reversion to witch craft and tribal rituals, sometimes as a corruption of Christian teaching in splinter sects, often as an upsurge of Islam with its tolerance of polygamy and a theology far less demanding than Christianity's. Last week, in the monthly York Diocesan leaflet Dr. Arthur M. Ramsey. Archbishop of York and Primate of England,* published an alarmed eyewitness account of the crisis. Writing from the town of Lilongwe (pop. 350 whites and 5,000 Negroes) in Nyasaland...