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Muzzle-Loaders & Missionaries. Fortnight ago, as Berber tribesmen from Rif peaks shot off ancient muzzle-loaders and sent up wild, ululating cries of jubilation, Morocco's King Mohammed toured the Unity Road, found it navigable, though rough, for its entire length of 35 miles...
Long before Britain set Ghana free, the proud, separatist-minded Ashanti tribesmen who make up about 20% of Ghana's population were implacably opposed to Nkrumah and his Convention People's Party. Instead of treading softly in the face of this opposition, Nkrumah decided to live it up as the first black ever to become a Prime Minister in the Commonwealth. He evicted Britain's Governor General from 296-year-old Christianborg Castle, and moved in himself. He put his head on Ghana's stamps, announced his intention of putting it on the country...
...Imam. Some of the headlines made it appear that the British were once again shooting up primitive desert tribesmen, defending a despotic ruler and creating a "second Suez." But in fact this was a case when the British were going to the help of a Sultan who, in the London Economist's words, "is not contending against an electorate of the future-a nationalist movement of young and educated men-but against a reactionary rival." The British showed their might almost hesitantly. They acted in Oman, fearing that if they did not, their position would be weakened along...
...after decades of hard fighting had won from the then Sultan a grudging acknowledgment of the Imam's rule in the mountains. So when two years ago the Sultan's foreign oil drillers went to work near the northern border, the Imam's tribesmen attacked them. The Sultan struck back, sending a few hundred British-officered levies to quell the rebels. He advanced in a flying column of Land-rovers, and it was a walkover. The Imam retired to a remote village, his brother led to Saudi Arabia, and bedaggered sheiks by the hundreds kissed the Sultan...
Some 2,000 tribesmen in all had panned the gold with no properly staked claims, no disputes and no acts of violence. Most took away what money they needed for some long cherished possession and then quit. A few bachelors bought themselves wives. A few wives bought their freedom and the right to set up shop as independent prostitutes. Said one still faithful wife: "I work with my husband. He has bought a bicycle. This week I shall buy a sewing machine. After that, we'll give up gold mining." "I'll buy good things...