Word: tribesmen
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...Westminster, the legislature over which Sir Abubakar presided last week had some of the flavor of a Pan-African Congress. On its benches tall, haughty Hausas, splendidly robed in green and scarlet, sat amongst volatile Ibos draped in white and azure gowns. Across the aisle were Yoruba tribesmen wrapped in gold, yellow and orange with little porkpie beanies on their heads. Between them, they constituted one of the world's noisiest Parliaments. Each speaker was greeted with cries of "Heah, heah" from his friends and derisory shouts of "Sit down, you wretched fool" from his foes; from the rostrum...
Under the Y's left arm, in the Western Region (pop. 8,000,000), live the most advanced of all Nigerians-the Yoruba tribesmen, who worship 400 different deities, including Shango, god of thunder, and boast a centuries-old tradition of political organization...
...relative peace temporarily settled on Léopoldville, news from the boondocks indicated that the U.N. could use all the help it could get. In the bush country of Katanga province, where they ambushed and killed nine Irish U.N. soldiers a fortnight ago, savage Baluba tribesmen last week hacked 113 of their native enemies to death, carving some of the bodies up for cannibal feasts. To its edgy troops the U.N. passed out the not very reassuring instructions that "if [poison] arrows are removed within two seconds, they cause only temporary discomfort...
...Sabres of Paradise, by Lesley Blanch. A true Arabian Nights tale of 19th century Russia's subjugation of unruly Caucasus tribesmen, replete with high-bouncing feats of battlefield and seraglio...
...Sabres of Paradise, by Lesley Blanch. This history of Russia's struggles to subdue the wild tribesmen of the Caucasus in the 19th century is hardly an orderly chronicle, but its digressions are fascinating, and its heroes are thundering horsemen and high-bouncing lovers...