Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lower slopes of the Mount Kilimanjaro that Hemingway celebrated lives a tribe almost unique in Africa-Christian, prosperous (with a $6.000,000-to-$8,000.000 annual coffee crop), and ruled by a British-educated chief known as King Tom. In the land of the Chagga, whites work for the blacks-and both accomplish a lot. See FOREIGN NEWS, "Look What...
...public appearance as a lion tamer at the age of eight. All Otto had to offer was stories, but it was a blase man indeed who could walk away from Otto's tales of how his skill at magic won him the honorary chieftainship of an African Pygmy tribe, or of the time that he tried to elope with the Emperor of Ethiopia's daughter...
...Masters. The Chagga saga began in 1932 when, with the permission of the British, African coffee growers banded together to found the spectacularly successful Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union. In the 26 years since, KNCU, the largest purely native commercial enterprise in colonial Africa, has boosted the Chagga from a tribe barely subsisting to a well-fed people with cash in their pockets. Each year, through their union, the Chagga market a $6,000,000 to $8,000,000 coffee crop. They own and operate a modern restaurant and hotel (The Coffee Tree Hostelry, with a balcony for every room), publish...
PROMPTLY at sunrise every Friday, the highest nobles and chiefs of the Mossi tribe gather outside the concrete palace in the capital of Upper Volta to go through a ceremony that has changed not one jot in centuries. Groveling in the dust, the chiefs render homage to the nobles and then in turn take homage from the multitudes around. When all that is done, drums begin to roll, and a plump young man of 28 suddenly appears, dressed in a bright red cap and robe. To 1,700,000 Mossi, the young Moro Naba is the incarnation...
...Child engagements. In one French Guinea tribe, if expectant parents are betting on a girl, the engagement takes place before the bride-to-be is even born. The baby girl gets her engagement ring in her first bath. Disturbed enough by prepuberty engagements, the delegates were shocked at the Guinea custom. "Alas, we cannot change," said one, "until the African man realizes that a woman is not just the daughter of her father, to be disposed of as he likes, or the property of her husband, to be treated as he pleases...