Word: tribesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lepers, slumdwellers and downtrodden tribesmen look upon Scott as a saint. Those white men in South Africa who believe that blacks are subhuman hewers of wood and drawers of water call him a crackpot...
Scott journeyed to native encampments on the wild thornbush plains. He bumped over rough motor tracks, got lost in deserts, sat with chiefs and councillors and took down their words. The tribesmen deputized him to speak for them to the outside world, sold some of their cattle to pay for his trips to sessions...
...plea for basic human rights which must belong to black as well as white, lest all Africa be driven in time toward a racial holocaust. He quoted Herero tribesmen who dreaded annexation by South Africa: "We shall be destroyed if we are incorporated." The natives preferred "the shadow of the British Crown" to the shades of South African apartheid. Respectfully, they begged for further U.N. hearings or a U.N. inquiry, and for the transfer of South West Africa to U.N. trusteeship...
...city's nearest neighbors, a handful of primitive tribesmen, know almost nothing about it and avoid it in superstitious fear. They call it Peshawarun, and believe it was abandoned centuries ago when invaders cut the irrigation ditches bringing water from the mountains. The inhabitants fled 700 miles northeast, locals claim, to found the city of Peshawar...
...with a tin corrugated roof. Ruth's arrival caused considerable commotion among the tribe (local traders were doing a brisk business in gaily colored prints, since the tribeswomen wished to live and dress up to the occasion). Actually, it may be months before Seretse's 100,000 tribesmen know whether or not they will have a white queen: the British government is holding an inquiry to determine whether or not Seretse had been legally chosen chief...