Word: tribals
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...future of Nigeria, Essien-Udom foresees a period of peaceful economic growth, without tribal strife. "There is rarely friction between the people of different tribes. It's the politicians who make the friction. But in Nigeria a party knows that it can't control the country by appealing to a particular tribe; it might get the support of a whole region, but it could never control the federal legislature. That is why our politicians are forced to rise above the tribes and think in terms of Nigeria...
...attempt to superimpose European customs on Africa without regard to either their context or their possible implications destroyed the classical tribal principles (including such rules as an absolute requirement of trial before punishment) without providing any realistic alternative...
...Ghanan tribal chief with a Ph.D. from Oxford will give the first lecture in a Quincy House series of forums and seminars on Africa. The speaker, Nana Nketsia, is the Cultural Adviser to Ghana's president...
...missionary doctor, according to one Zulu schoolboy, "prays over you before he kills you." It is a fair measure of Anthony Barker's own humility that he concedes some truth to the schoolboy's definition. As an Anglican medical missionary on a Zululand tribal preserve. Barker has indeed prayed for (and among) his charges. As a district surgeon battling impossible disease with often inadequate tools, he admits to times when a life may have been shortened by his fumbling instead of lengthened by his skill...
...what the doctor could do before entrusting him with their bodily ills. Community status came in time; with it came Barker's discovery that the Zulu's ritual way of thinking made medicine an exercise in etiquette as well as a practical science. No visit to a tribal chief, healthy or not, was complete without an injection or, at the least, the prescription of a placebo. On house calls, a patient remained untended, no matter how ill, until the end of a lengthy dialogue of familial greetings ("Are you all well at your place?" "Yes, we are well...