Abazungu

4-04-2012        MUZUNGU!! this is how local people call the “white people” on the road..you will listen kids and young people calling you eveywhere “muzungu” in rwanda as in the most of the countries of east-africa! the term has swahili roots and in rwanda they say it derives from KUZUNGURA that in kinyrwanda means TO REPLACE, referred to the colonialists.  The word Muzungu can be used withthree meanings : White man, money (Amafaranga in kinya) and colonist (it was used for belgians).

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