Word: yoruba
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...Pearl spent more than a year visiting 30 tribes - in the Gold Coast, the Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and Nigeria. In western Nigeria, the Yoruba tribe named her "Omowale," or "child has returned home." She took part in stately court and social dances, was taught the ceremonials of puberty and hunting...
...size of Spain. Its population of 22 million is jammed into 373,000 square miles of jungle, swamp and grasslands. Its people are divided into three main tribes: the tough Moslem Hausas who live along the lower edge of the Sahara and despise the southern Nigerians; the town-dwelling Yorubas; and the farming Ibos. Mutual antagonism, sometimes exploited by the British, has kept the tribes apart. Since Zik's return, however, there has been a rapprochement. Zik, an Ibo, now wears a combination of Hausa and Yoruba style clothes to symbolize the new trend...
...they carry out the ceremony of circumcision to the letter, "although not in the same way as in Palestine today. Our rabbis permit us to use only our teeth and fingernails for the observance." LoBagola's people speak "a dialect of Arabic, mixed a great deal with Hausa, Yoruba, and Benga vernacu-lars." They wear no clothes. Most of them have never seen a white...