Word: tribalized
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...celebrate the nation's soth anniversary. "The whites must continue to govern." And in case anyone had any doubts that apartheid was still to remain the holy doctrine, he called for full speed ahead on the vast project to herd millions of South African blacks into segregated tribal states in the virgin bush...
...First colonized (and named) by Germany 76 years ago, Togoland after World War II was split into British and French mandates without regard to tribal boundaries. In 1957 the British portion was folded into Ghana, whose ambitious Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah openly covets the French part he did not get. As late as 1958, France was still stubbornly rejecting any talk of Togo independence. Then under prodding from Togo's able pro-Western nationalist, Sylvanus Olympic, 57, the U.N. ordered an election in which Olympio's Committee for Togolese Unity swept two-thirds of the seats, and thereupon...
...hinterland, which had been a stronghold of the opposition until Nkrumah ruthlessly broke the power of the tribal chiefs two years ago, the Prime Minister's machine showed its efficiency. United Party vehicles were burned; party leaders were jailed on flimsy charges until the voting was over. Nkrumah's hard-fisted Transport Minister Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei stormed into one United Party headquarters and. when he saw the Prime Minister's picture hung upside down with pins stuck in its eyes, ordered that a beating be administered to the man responsible. In an Ashanti district toured by Edusei...
Myriad Laws. Even marrying a young man as Europeanized as herself has its drawbacks. Many African men profess to be Christians, but enjoy the best of two worlds by having one church wife and several tribal ones. Under Uganda law such bigamy is punishable by five years in jail, but the law is rarely applied. Said a social worker: "If it were, the entire African aristocracy would be in prison...
...days, when Africans rarely married outside their tribal groups, these contradictory customs affected few. But as the number of city-bred Africans grows, the problem has become Africa-wide. Today many families are neither completely tribal nor wholly Europeanized, but something in between, with all the tensions and disputes caused by the conflict of a traditional and an emerging culture. To keep their personal freedom and the control of their own earnings, many African girls are refusing to marry the men they live with. An estimated half of the couples living together in Uganda have had neither Christian, civil...