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<nyokabi@kingcon.com> Ralph Austen wrote: Regarding Murdock's ethnographic map: Swahili speakers will enjoy locating the group he labels "washenzi.' For the true washenzi out there, this translates as something like "pagan barbarians" (or worse). Just to add to this: when Europeans (always males,I never heard of a female) "went native", i.e. raised a family with an African woman, lived in an African village, eating, dressing in the local mode and allegedly sometimes even forgetting their native language, they were called 'Wazungu Washenzi', which might translate as "wild whites" or "bush whites". Walter Rodney's excellent book on the Portuguese in West Africa in the 15th century ( his PhD dissertation at Oxford) mentions this same phenomenon of Portuguese men who did the same thing at this very early date, only on a much larger scale, I am sure, than this ever happened in later English colonies.
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