Word: tribalized
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...Actually clitoridectomy, practiced for generations to reduce tribal maidens' sex urges in order to promote chastity before marriage...
...were seated around the table, and, transporting them by limousines having proved impossible, they moved from hotels to sessions in chartered streetcars. Meetings were a mad mélange of inflammatory speeches, door-slamming walkouts, rival press conferences and angry communiqués as 60 Congolese parties and innumerable tribal chiefs jockeyed for position in the race to lead the vast new nation-to-be. One delegate tried to restrain the others by quoting an old tribal saying: "He who tries to eat before the others burns himself." Chief rival for the power of the mercurial Kasavubu is Patrice Lumumba...
...more demanding job. The toughest one in sight was the Colonial Office, and Macleod boned up for it and got it. Within a month, he abolished the state of emergency in Kenya-seven years after the Mau Mau terror began. He toured East and Central Africa, talked with tribal chiefs, heads of government, and dozens of others, including his younger brother, Roderick, 39, a white settler in Kenya...
...local ruler, 70-year-old King Lukengu, who has more than 300 wives, at first was suspected of promoting the revival of tschipapa, but when he faithfully turned in several tribal poison mixers to the white authorities, he was exonerated of blame-just in time to be received by Baudouin during his stop at Luluabourg...
...problem. An African boy cheerfully slogs hundreds of miles out of the bush to find the nearest primary school. If he reaches secondary school (10% do), he must persuade his poverty-stricken father to help him stay. He may even face a painful ordeal at the hands of the tribal witch doctor to prove his determination. And if he actually gets through college, all his relatives descend on him for support. Yet able Africans endure any hardship to win a university degree, the highest status symbol they can imagine...