Word: tribesmen
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...last November Bernard Fagg, director of antiquities in Nigeria, paused on a cross-country journey to make a courtesy call on the Oni of Ife. The Oni, the Hon. Sir Adesoji Aderemi, King and spiritual leader of 4,500,000 Yoruba tribesmen, was delighted by the visit. An hour earlier, workmen, clearing a site for a new building, had uncovered a few delicately wrought bronze relics, and the Oni was eager to show them off. After one look at the find-two bronze statues, two egg-shaped staff finials, two solid brass staffs, and a decorated drinking vessel-Fagg rushed...
...when Gilead dies, his other sons deny Jephta his inheritance and drive him into the wilderness. There Jephta grows tough and strong, and raises around his standard so doughty an army of outcasts and freebooters that, when enemies attack the tribe of Gilead, it is to Jephta that the tribesmen turn for help...
...Hamou's nationalists and tribesmen were moving fast. Now calling themselves the new Saharan Army of Liberation, they appeared at Edchera, near Aiun, in the midst of a blinding sandstorm, launched a fierce attack on its garrison of Spanish soldiers and Legionnaires. It was the most murderous battle since the 1934 French "pacification" campaign. The Spanish claimed the Moroccans fled, leaving 241 corpses and 20 camels. The communiqué also listed 51 Legionnaires dead, but a knowing Madrid source indicated that total Legion casualties almost equaled the Moroccan dead...
Aiun is a capital of unpaved streets and adobe buildings, lacking proper port facilities, adequate airstrip or water supply for 15,000 Spanish soldiers. In its bazaar, tribesmen selling their beads and hammered silver listen to Arab-language broadcasts from Rabat, just as Moroccans before independence tuned in Cairo. In the surrounding countryside, the Spanish have pulled their garrisons out of many tiny outposts into four desert fortresses...
...real battleground may be the south, because Khalil's Umma and El Azhari's N.U.P. are thought to be almost equally balanced in the north. Who will win in the south is anybody's guess. In the last elections in 1953, many southern tribesmen arrived at the polls under the impression that the government was going to give them a big party. A few arrived drunk on dura (millet) beer, and at one polling station a naked tribesman appeared smeared from head to foot with white wood ash. Asked why, he replied with simple dignity...