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...Khama, 59, popular President of the southern African nation of Botswana since its independence in 1966; of cancer; in Gaborone, the capital. The hereditary chief of the Bamangwato, the dominant tribe among the Texas-size, cattle-herding country's 830,000 people, Khama was exiled to Britain by tribal elders in 1950 after his marriage to Ruth Williams, a white English secretary he met while studying law in London. He finally renounced his chieftaincy in order to return and to enter politics, winning election as Prime Minister in 1965 and as President the following year. While opposing the white...
...Pope John Paul II, including a peace pipe and beaded leather moccasins. But the purpose of their visit to Rome was to celebrate the beatification of Kateri Tekakwitha, the "Lily of the Mohawks," a 17th century Indian woman who converted to Christianity and clung to her faith resolutely, despite tribal torments, until her death...
...this play of code between solid and void (one apparently as "tactile" as the other) that the formal prophecies of Les Demoiselles lay. Though he plundered African motifs such as masks and Bakota funerary figures for Les Demoiselles and its sequels, Picasso neither knew nor cared about their tribal meanings or uses. To him, they were merely shapes, conceptually opaque, with perhaps a secondary use as emblems of "savagery" to disrupt the field of "culture." The idea that Picasso had some sympathetic interest in African art as such is a complete illusion. All that counted for him was its ability...
...near Kinshasa, old women trilled highpitched lullaloos, and the officiating Belgian priest wore a monkey-skin headdress with the tail running down his back. Among the gifts presented to John Paul in Nairobi: primitive paintings, an animal-skin cape, an antelope horn, daggers, a spear and shield, and a tribal headdress that he gamely donned...
...Catholic Church, and conventional Protestant churches too, struggle to hold the traditional line, thousands of African Independent Churches are growing up around the continent. They are thriving precisely because they are free from overseas restriction and remote form, and because they do not worry about ritual backsliding into tribal practices. Along with wild and colorful services, they usually emphasize healings and personalized visions and prophecies. Some, including the largest independent church of all, Zaïre's Church of Jesus Christ on Earth by the Prophet Simon Kimbangu, more closely resemble orthodox Protestantism. The movement was founded...