mshamba
Swahili
References
- Fritsch, Katharina (2017) “‘Trans-skin’: Analyzing the practice of skin bleaching among middle-class women in Dar es Salaam”, in Ethnicities, volume 17, number 6, , page 761 of 749-770: “The respective term for ‘lout’ in Swahili is ‘mshamba’, which has two meanings: it refers to people living in rural areas but it also means ‘lout’ or ‘uncouth person’, illustrating the intersection of ‘race’ and class in one term.”
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