¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mzungu
1. a white person in East Africa [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mzungu
Literary usage of Mzungu
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nyasaland Under the Foreign Office by Hector Livingston Duff (1906)
"The mzungu. Who gave your people grain during the last famine? ... The mzungu.
And after all this you will not send the mzungu a few carriers. ..."
2. Gender, Land and Livelihoods in East Africa: Through Farmers' Eyes by Ritu Verma (2001)
"For example, during encounters with Kenyan participants, I presented myself as
a Canadian 'mzungu,' and silenced my 'Asian' identity, and for the most part ..."
3. Scouting for Stanley in East Africa by Thomas Stevens (1890)
""Great is the mzungu! Woh! woh!" sung the melodists from the Land ... "Woh! woh!
woh! the mzungu! woh!" "He gives us rupees! rupees! ..."
4. Across East African Glaciers: An Account of the First Ascent of Kilimanjaro by Hans Meyer (1891)
""Am I not an mzungu (European), and is it not enough that I come as the friend
... We know that you are an mzungu, but the ways of the mzungu are not as our ..."
5. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Entomological Section (1890)
"The mzungu is great ! woh !" "Woh ! woh ! woh ! the Mzu-uguu ! woh ! ... Great is
the mzungu ! woh !" " Woh ! woh ! woh ! the mzungu woh ! ..."
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