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...pick a site for full-scale peace negotiations, probably somewhere in Africa. Any talks face formidable difficulties: Nigeria insists that Biafra rejoin the country and be split up into three states; Biafra demands that it retain some form of sovereignty in order to protect its 8,500,000 Ibo tribesmen...
...practice, a growing number of African missionaries are willing to accept converts who they suspect are secretly practicing polygamy. Hillman concedes that the church should not encourage polygamy. But he also argues that the church should accept as converts tribesmen who have already contracted valid polygamous marriages. To do otherwise, says Hillman, means telling a man, "in the name of the Christian ideal of marriage and family life, that he must divorce the mother of his own children...
...does not fully realize the effect of pulling a trigger and blowing off another man's head. Modern long-range weapons further blunt his sensibilities. Mussolini's son extolled the bombing of the Ethiopians: "I dropped an aerial torpedo right in the center of a cluster of tribesmen, and the group opened up like a flowering rose. It was most entertaining...
...Fernando Poo boasts bountiful harvests of coffee, bananas and cocoa. It has a model road system, one of Africa's highest rates of primary school attendance (89%) and per capita income ($246)-and probably its biggest leisure class. When the Spanish government gave the island's Bubi tribesmen their own farms, many of the placid, easygoing natives simply leased the land to Spanish and Portuguese settlers, then sat back and began taking in income. The settlers, in turn, imported Nigerian laborers, who now make up two-thirds of Fernando Poo's 60,000 population. Other mainlanders from...
...waste populated by 40,000 nomads and 20,000 troops and government officials, Spain is pouring $28 million into the de velopment of vast underground phos phate reserves - the world's largest -and spending another $9,000,000 a year to put up schools, dig water wells for tribesmen and persuade the suspicious Saharans that the Spanish are really on their side. In a recent referendum, 14,000 out of 16,000 persons voted to continue the Spanish Sahara's present territorial status...