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...tiny (pop. 100) coastal village of northern Papua. When he was eight his father, a hunter in the Sombaba tribe, sent him and his brother off to the Anglican mission school in nearby Gona. There the two boys joined the church, learned to read and write, and lost their tribal fear of sorcerers and spirits. Later, while he was at St. Aiden's teacher-training college near Dogura, young George Ambo felt the first stirrings of a call to the priesthood, and at the same time attracted the attention of Anglican churchmen, who sent him off traveling through...
Raincoats Are Enough. Biggest market is Africa, where only a fraction of the population can afford new clothes, and where self-conscious new nations like Ghana are anxious to wipe out traditional tribal nudity. Ghana last year doubled its purchase of used clothes, spent some $1,680,000 on broni waawu, mostly from the U.S., and the All-Africa Women's League, the most militant no-nakedness national organization, distributed several thousand garments free. Morocco last year imported $1,000,000 in secondhand garments. In East Africa, the political and missionary propaganda on the importance of wearing clothes...
Strong Voice. A French-educated tribal chieftain with a Tammany sachem's flair for politics, Houphouet-Boigny became a member of the French Assembly in 1945, joined forces with the Communists, but broke with them in 1950. He eventually parlayed his role as an African spokesman into a three-year succession of Cabinet posts in Paris, beginning in 1956. For the Ivory Coast, Houphouet-Boigny has wangled from France an ambitious aid program ($16.5 million this year). As a result, Abidjan is completely electrified and may be the only city in Africa where every dwelling has running water...
...first arises from the integration of small, separate tribal groups into the new nations. Sarker explained that this has led to sub-nationalism that makes the pursuit of common goals extremely difficult. Secondly, the new nations face a common lack of competent leadership in the coming generation...
...midwife is often regarded as a sort of medieval social curiosity, on a par with the fortuneteller. In U.S. obstetrical argot, a clumsy delivery is a "midwife's job." This loss of stature was partly deserved. A generation ago, for example, all Moroccan births were handled by the tribal midwife (habla), whose actions were inspired more by superstition than by science. If the newborn Moroccan infant cried too loudly, the habla sliced the child's thorax "to let the bad blood out." About 80% of the noisy infants died...