Tribal identity continues to play a far more important part in the central Africans than ideas of nationhood.

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Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

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Once again, however, logic must defer, in this case, to the vanity and power-hunger of national politicians and, it must be said, to the enduring loyalties of Europeans to their nation-states, despite a striking increase in their affirmations of a local or tribal identity.

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