Word: tribalized
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...Master's Voice. In awe, the surrounding Lobi tribesmen referred to him as "Kongo Massa," or "Master of the Bush." But the Lobi men are hunters, and Matta's hippos and antelopes meant meat to them. Skins could be sold to white trophy hunters, and tribal Africans pay high prices for elephants' sexual organs for use in fertility rites. Matta had only nine men to protect an area twice the size of Long Island. He begged the chiefs to restrain the poachers. That failing, he appealed to his own French superiors in Abidjan for more money...
ANCIENT DRUGS. Scores of folk-medicine herbals have been credited (on folklore evidence) with reducing fertility. Modern medical scientists are now investigating tribal prescriptions from central Africa to the South Seas...
...pass lists the African's name, birthplace, and tribal affiliation, contains his picture and serial number, has space for a receipt to prove that he has paid his taxes and to list his arrests, and unless it is signed each month by his employer, the African can be herded with the other unemployed into a native reservation...
Lumumba has powerful enemies in Elisabethville, who hope that after independence they will be able to keep the copper wealth of their Katanga province pretty much to themselves. He also has there a fiercely loyal tribal following, which he has carefully kept inflamed. The result was that no sooner had Lumumba appeared on the scene, a leopard skin draped dramatically over his well-tailored lounge suit, than the fighting began...
...week. The South African government's Bantu Education department ruled that its officials no longer may shake hands with Africans they meet on official business. To get around any awkward encounters, they should employ "traditional" greetings to blacks-say, a hand raised in salute or, when squatting in tribal parley, the clapping of hands...