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Why Are Whites ‘Mzungu’ In Swahili?
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- Опубліковано 2 тра 2024
- In East Africa, locals often refer to White visitors from Europe and the US as ‘mzungu’ - and it occasionally prompts concern among non-Swahili speakers that it could be derogatory.
But as our Ethiopian sister Weyni Tesfai here explains, the word is no slur. She says it originated in the 19th century, when European explorers landed on the continent. Among them was Scotsman David Livingstone, who was looking for the source of the river Nile. Locals on the island of Zanzibar wondered about this visitor, who seemed to be ‘spinning’ (Swahili ‘zunguka’), or wandering, around the area in search of something. Hence was formed ‘mzungu’ - meaning one who spins around or wanders. Since then, ‘mzungu’ has evolved to mean any White person.
Do you know any interesting African word etymologies? Please share in the comments.
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Roaming around aimlessly is a rather astute description of "Western civilization".
Well when youre part of one of the most successful civilization who had conquered all other peoples around them, achieved great technological and economical successess, what else but go exploring?
@@nicolasclermont893 you empathize too much with slavers and colonizers who had no respect for people or the planet 😅
@@7smith77 Do you mean the Tripolitanian slavers who enslaved 1.20 million European people? (compared to 470,000 africans taken to the united states) or do you mean Ottoman colonialism or Japanese colonialism?
Please be more specific.
@@7smith77So you say, that africans, asians and arabs didm't enslaved everyone they could?
Do you know the kingdom of dahomey?
@@nicolasclermont893 you poor deluded wanker
In luganda, one of the Ugandan dialects okuzunga means move around aimlessly. I can relate with this mzungu. Thanks for this information.
Yeah bazunga nnyo , kumbe that's the meaning bulijjo
Bazunga buzunzi bazungana ate bakyaazunga nyo kuba bazunzi
In Uganda apart from Muzungu we also call them Bangereza which came from the word "okugeza" which signs. They used sign language to communicate with the natives,because Uganda was colonolised by the British today we call Britain Bungereza in Luganda.
Woweeee😅😅😅 let me run from here
@@ssalimuhamood6275 bungereza comes from the word ingleza a lugandanized word for English. English= Ingleza. German = jerimani.
Not " spinning around on the same spot "
It means "AIMLESSLY LOITERING CREATURE "
That describes them perfectly because they keep doing the same shit wherever they go
Muzungu derived from 'Kuzunga' which literally means Loitering. 😅
Still spinning or moving around
In Shona we call ---This senseless spinning on the same spot----Dzungu😂🇿🇼
Quite funny.. in my language, a close one to this is Dungu word, means stupid 😅
I rather Africans/African-Diaspora be like the Hawaiians or Mexicans and not tell the Europeans/Euro-Americans anything.
Just talk about them, in front of them, without them knowing ANYTHING about what we're saying...ABOUT THEM!!! Return the favor...
But, you do you...
Afrikan oneness ❤
@radenrahmat1717😂
Dzunguluwa, Venda word,, for spinning around on the same spot. South Africa.
Kizungungu - dizzy
dizzy or ditzy usual precedes the word blonde when folk talk about a white woman who's kinda clueless.
Can we as African, stop telling Caucasian our Business. We can't do anything unless we get their approval.
Da fuck you need our approval for?😅
You’re not Caucasian shuush
@@eveali3177 example 356 why africa (with exceptions) hasnt advanced as much as it should
Stupid comments.
😂
The name makes sense even in South Africa
Okay there feral eggplant
Swahili related to zulu nguni shamgani ndembele khosa nyasa lingala luganda kirwanda kiburundi kikuyu luo many languages similar with Swahili language in east to South Africa
Don't tell them ish!
Yes, I want to be appreciated and be treated equally and have culture shared with me, but I don't want to do it back where the fuck are we as a people how did we get to a point where we expect to be treated as equals and wanted to be culture accepted but show the same hypocrisies as racist I don't get that at all we want better but don't expect better form are selves
Wow didn't know the meaning of muzungu till today 😅😂😅😂 Thank you very much 😅😅😅
Wow thanks for that, I’ve never really thought about looking into that word.
Wow! I speak Swahili but never knew this '"Mzungu" term source. It actually makes sense, as "Kuzunguluka" is a verb that means SPINNING AROUND, WONDERING, all the likes including the many Bantu languages that share the same concept: in Rwanda, they say, "Umuzungu" (Kinyarwanda), in Congo (DRC) "Kizunguzungu" e.i. Dizziness (Lingala) not even Swahili! So we can go dizzy if you spin around 😂 We can go on!
Alright! Learning stuff any day, though!
Thank you for your lecture on Mzungu. I'm not even from any one of the eastern countries that speaks kiswahili. I'm Nigerian but I've been using the word because I know it refers to the White Man but I didn't know the exact meaning
What did u think it meant
@@Boconnor401.
The White Man
Trust me it’s not a positive word at all, it perfectly calls out their erratic behaviour when they reach foreign lands.
@@XY-rh3if oh
Finally we have an explanation
Europeans, or Westerners, are still very much Muzungu. They subscribe to (or suffer from) orientalism, which is best defined as a unique western Psycho-Epistemic (Disorderly) Disposition, as elaborated upon by Professor Wael Hallaq.
Like fish in water, it’s often difficult to see the fabric of one’s world, however, people on the outside benefit from a vantage point and can look in and often detect something quite unfamiliar to them. To be Western, upon first contact, is assumed to be geographic in nature; to be physically located or originated in a place called “The West”. But that doesn’t quite fit the bill, because “the Western” is sometimes found in the East (sometimes referred to as the South), and also because sometimes Eastern faces are discernibly Western - though it’s nothing to do with the colour of their skin.
So what is it that we detect and label as “Western”? To be Western (or perhaps “Modern” is a better word) means to have particular beliefs and particular practices, not simply to be located geographically - or temporally in respect to “the Modern”. Some tenets of being Western include being Cartesian, being Occamian, being Kantian and being Hobbesian. Though these ideas/counter-ideas and their authors were not historically born in this order, the Western/Modern approximately deploys them in the following order:
*Firstly*, to be Cartesian is to be anthropocentric, but in a very particular way, born from a very particular narrative, and with a very particular trajectory and end-point. Following the object-subject split which strips subjectivity (and personhood) from all that is considered and categorised as “natural”, all things existent in the world are licensed for objectification (including other humans). Initiated here is the splitting of fact and value, an outcome achieved by rendering all knowledge quantitative and vanquishing the qualitative, that is, asserting that all knowledge can and must be knowable through mathematics. This makes permissive everything from simple inconsiderateness to genocide. (It’s ironic that math cannot in _fact_ measure _value_). Islam and Muslims are not (yet), and cannot, be Cartesian.
*Secondly*, to be Occamian is to adopt nominalism, whereby the real/objective world of universals and forms is denied. This was a key historical moment in the western genealogy of ideas which at once made possible a world (and values) of our own imagining, and also refuted reason and allowed empiricism to rule supreme; all else being subordinated to it (but perhaps without forms and hierarchies that shouldn’t technically be possible!) Islam and Muslims are not (yet), and cannot, be Occamian.
*Thirdly*, to be Kantian is to deny objective reality (or at least access to it), leaving only subjectivism. This results in the adoption, assertion and _exportation_ of ontological voluntarism; the possibilities becoming _boundless_ via moral voluntarism. Islam and Muslims are not (yet), and cannot, be Kantian.
*Fourthly*, to be Hobbesian is to rationalise and license the subordination, domination and exploitation of all that is “natural”, and to see the world through such an Hobbesian dichotomy of “the natural” and “the cultural”, or the “wild/savage” and the “civilised”. This not only makes permissive but, rather, mandates a predatory “salvific imperative” of violation, violence and subjugation of that which is “other” to the self. Islam and Muslims are not (yet), and cannot, be Hobbesian.
Many Westerners (wherever or whatever their superficial identity may be) don't seem to apprehend these beliefs and practices which define their way of life. They don’t recognise, understand or problematise this new religion of theirs, nor it's history or it's trajectory into the future.
An alternate ethic and way-of-being is desperately needed, but such a thing would require introspection and a quietening of all distraction - unlikely in a world fuelled and driven by the _doctrine of progress_.
Bibliography:
- Wael Hallaq (2018), Restating Orientalism; A Critique of Modern Knowledge.
- Wael Hallaq (2013), The Impossible State; Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament.
- CS Lewis (1943), The Abolition of Man.
- Hasan Spiker (2021), Things As They Are.
- Ahmed Paul Keeler (2019), Rethinking Islam & the West: A New Narrative for the Age of Crises.
What kind of AI bot bs is this.
@@kallumcoekin3401 just take it slow and read it carefully. Many of us, me included, have the very same disposition/worldview.
Ok. So what does Western civilization look like when you excise those philosophical constructs from it? And is that really what people want for the Muslim world? I seriously doubt it.
To answer that question you only need to think historically. Wind back the clock behind the Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution, the dawn of modernity itself.... Ah yes, the middle ages. The era of authoritarian monarchs with absolute power, serfdom (which is near slavery), no personal autonomy (except for the elite) and plenty of territorial and religious war.
Hallaq is clever. Better than Said, in fact. But his model offers NOTHING of value to the Muslim world, except a return to the lost Islamic civilization of the Middle ages. But there's a reason why that system collapsed. It could not compete with modernity.
There's absolutely no reason why the Muslim can't adapt modernity - except the inflexibility of a terrible religion.
This is what scitzophrenia looks like^
That sums it up perfectly
Well it is a rather corrct description
In South Africa we are called “Umlungu”
Your language is one of the contributors to Swahili, thanks to Shaka Zulu. We are Bantus. In SA you say Inyoka, Inyama, we just say nyoka and nyama.
Thats not entirely true. Some of our people are from South East Africa and Congo. Before Shaka Zulu came to the picture, it is not only Zulu languages that share words with Swahili. Virtually all of Southern Africans do. @visitnamanga
@@lebo3793 exactly. In fact, the word "mlungu" is also isiXhosa.
@@lebo3793 Both are true. Still not wrong about Swahili, our language is like English, born of many.
In East Africa, for the Bantus is mulungu God in heaven
Forget about Mzungu, what's your @ though?😍
Thanks 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
I have a different name for them. Mine is yurugu. Perfect description of what they are.
Seems kind of racist...
Yes, pale sKINned fox.
Marimba Ani's idea? She got most of her ideas from Franz Fanon. Their critiques of the cultural and psychological effects of the imperialism of the 19th and really 20th centuries were valuable.
But they were short sighted. There is nothing specifically European or "white" about the abuses of imperialism. Before European empires, the Arab empires did the same things in Africa. Before the Arabs, the Songhai and Malian empires explored ethnic differences in their own abuses of power. Before them, there was Aksum, Kush, and ancient Egypt.
There's nothing preventing the Chinese from engaging in similar power plays and exploitation now.
And this isn't a uniquely African problem. It runs throughout human history on every continent. Every major civilization since the bronze age has engaged in some version of slavery, subjugation and conquest.
And all the white European imperialists are long dead at this point.
Yes, Yurugu is my preference as well.
The translation of Yurugu describes them extremely well.
The Dogon know more about the stars than any people alive today.
@@RobespierreThePoofNone of those empires did the same thing.
The Chinese haven't done the same thing, and your poor argument is "nothing is preventing them."
Sounds scientific.
The same imperialīsts are alive and well and causing over 30k děaths in the Mīddle East.
Notice it's the same group, just calling themselves semītes this time.
I don't know why you shy away from claiming this title and truth, Yurugu.
Western exceptionalism.
You are exceptional in that nothing seeks to děstroy and sŭbjugate like you do.
A creăture without a god.
I'm from Southern Africa and we too say muzungu to describe Caucasian now I know where it came from, thank you queen for the education ❤
In Tanzania there’s tribe call ruguru and zaramo and ngoni r similar with Zulu language such as kaya home kula eat mbuzi goat nyoka snake kuku chicken kupenda like or love
I can't wait to hear the children in the markets whisper to their friends and peep around corners to see the muzungu . I was an overlander there way back in the early 90s.
It's on the bucket list. I must see those sunsets again. One of the best places in the world.
I went to all three of those countries! I heard that word a lot! I’m appreciative to learn what it means..
Some wisdom there, I n Zimbabwean white people are called murungu derived from muzungu, bantu roots. But then what did know is dzungu, in Zimbabwean is exactly the same. 😅😅😅
😄😁 source clean, green and possibly free energy.. a mzungu
Thank you for your great information beautiful girl. I always had the wrong info .
Much love and respect.
I think Portuguese were here(east Africa)1st
Totally nailed the description 😂😂😂
The Ancestors were more intelligent. What a perfect name
We are mzungu for sure
Bazungu would be the plural form
@@danielc.m6899 Wazungu in Kiswahili but generally in Bantu languages a/wa/ba is how 'm' is pluralized
Roaming around aimlessly,In Jamaica they would say-that,you’re running around like mad ants when rain is about to fall 😂😂
Why would Wazungu be watching a Pan African channel?
They watch EVERYTHING about us not being able to mind their own business. Go to any video about Black topics and you'll find "Muzungus" trolling us obsessed with us 🙄💯
@@lf1496I'm only obsessed with your natural beauty 😘
@@Globus7791why
@@lf1496what the hell are you talking about
@@Boconnor401. If you can't see why then you are a homosexual and I have finish that conversation.Take care.
As an African this video is informative
As a white South African, I approve this word for my people.
Got a town in NJ named for the same dude.
If I didn't know any better, she makes the term sound rather endearing when the implications of them folks arriving in Africa were far more dire and threatening...but that's just me 🤷🏾
That's the same word we use in Jamaican patois (patwah)
In South Africa the world is Mlungu, but its mostly used to be offensive.
Because they are! Think about it.
Any mzungus in SA offended by that could carry their complaints back to Holland, we know they won't do that though 🤷🏿♂️
@aisosaihama Ooo your mama never hit you enough to teach you some damn manners
Loitering aimlessly!sema kuzunguka!! Nahisi kuzunguzungu right now😂
In Zambia we call them "umusungu"
Zambia ku chalo 🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲
And muzungu
That's bemba in Chichewa nyanja and nsenga it muzungu
Zambians say muzungu too
Spining in Zambia is zunguluka or kumuzungulusa muzunguluse 🇿🇲 all those words mean spinning or going round and round, a dizziness is chizunguzungu
In Malaysia we use word ‘dungu’ meaning ‘idiot’ for person who behaved like a child that failed to think as expected of a grown up person.😂😂😂
Lol...these my ancestors nailed it. It fits the mzungus so well....from now on I'm using it for them
Wow, I never knew this. 😂
😮😮😮 Thx !!
In South Africa is called mlungu
Zungu zungu guzung guzeng.
Oww in South Africa we say umulungu😅😅 makes so much sense
I knew you;you hate my country and you might be right to you but I am really proud of you what you tried to explain to Africa.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 oh God I never know the meaning of this word I use to think it referred to a colour
😂😂😂😂😂 wooow amazing. You Better than school. Mzunguki yule msenge.
It's "Mlungu" in Zulu language from Azania🇿🇦
So literally it means lollygagger or rubberneck. 😅
Wow beautiful analysis.
Uninvited spinning around looking at everything they could steal
Politicians are mlungous.
I❤️YOU.GREETINGS FROM MUZUNGU😘
We❤u too Mzungu
😂😂😂😂😂. They wandered senslesssly!
In South Africa the meaning is different, "Umlungu was given by AmaZulu and EmaSwati meaning the kind one"! There is a surname called Zungu in isiZulu and the verb uku"zungeza" means going round in circles! The Zungu clan, Chonco clan, Mbuyisa clan and others look like Masai people and males are very handsome, they are also fond of keeping cattle and goats. They also cut big holes in their ears and call their cut ears big round circular props dressing iziqhaza. Mlungu and Mzungu have totally different meanings!
I'm a White South African who can speak 4 native languages. In South African we call whites uMlungu.
The second biggest word is Lekgowa.
You're yurugu
Lekgowa means bully 😂
Lol who is "We" in this case??
@@traorebaba2297 Speakers of African languages
It is actually kind of might have started as a derogatory word if you think about it. You can also translate it as, "Walking in circles"
For example, "Kizunguzungu" yup, it's kind of 'insane' if you think about it...
Yurugu is my word.
Read the book, it details their psychology immensely.
I had no idea 💡Really! And I come from a town named after this particular Muzugu😅 Livingstone.
She's sharp n cool ,,
Doctor Livingstone I presume ?
Great description.
Mlungu, almost sounds the same.
Soo pretty!
It's the same word used in Zambia
"mzungu"😂😂😂
'Mlungu' in South Africa, there's so much similarities in our african languages
This etymology is hilarious, I ove it
aimless loiterer if there's such a word even. they even called each other worse names like barberians and vandals from the word vandalism.
Sadly, they didn't know that Muzungu was an angel from hell. The rest is history.
Duh
We are all spinning in the same spot.
Earth is constantly in motion.
😂😂😂 you have me today
Thanks didn’t know that
Livingston was spinning same spot until he colonized them poor people he fool them😂😂😂
In centre Mozambique is muzungu. Different to Mulugu, which means God.
God in Swahili is Mungu ang not zungu, zungu is roaming around
So how would you define mwenye
😂 love it
What do you call us Brazilians when we visit you? Because as far as I know, we are not white, we are Latinos.
I'm not from the countries that speak Swahili but in my country of Nigeria, anyone with the skin tone of the White Man is refered to as OYINBO. Although we have a name for Black Albino (AFIN), we also refer to them as OYINBO depending on their level of albinism.
However, the word OYINBO is historically reserved for the White Man. So calling a Black Albino OYINBO is more like describing them as looking like the White Man and it isn't used in a derogatory manner
There is no such thing as white. That is a meaningless term and Latino isn’t in the same branch or category or topic as that
@@XY-rh3if Cool, but what is the word you use to refer to Brazilians or Latinos in general? Also, have you guys gotten rid of Agadez yet? US Air Base 201. All power to the people of Nigeria!
@@MortemRegibus
This word (OYINBO) doesn't have any reference to the nationality, rather it has more to do with the skin tone. So we'll call an Afro Brazilian Black Brazilian and a Brazilian of Portuguese decent would be OYINBO because even though he may be mixed, he's still OYINBO because of his lighter skin tone, except if he's brownish complexion like an Indian, then we wouldn't call them OYINBO. For example, we call Indians Indian and that's it.
By the way Nigeria 🇳🇬 and Algeria 🇩🇿 are 2 different countries. The first is in the west of Africa and the second is in the North. I'm from Nigeria but Agadez is a city in Algeria. So I can't answer your question about Agadez in Algeria. Anyway, I love Brazilian Soccer because the Brazilian national team use to be the King 👑 of Soccer. I also love Samba, La Carnaval and Brazilian Women. Portuguese for me is the most sexy language, pero no farla Portuguese., Español si. Nigeria doesn't have a US base. THANK GOODNESS!
@@XY-rh3if Haha ha! Sorry for the confusion about the location of the Yankees' base. The names of the countries are a little similar and I ended up exchanging one for the other. I'm glad you don't at least have one of their bases there. Brazil is a melting pot of cultures and Brazilian women are wonderful, but I prefer Uruguayan women and Chilean women, Hahaha! Our language is cool, but as Miguel de Cervamtes said: "The Portuguese language is Spanish without bones."
This bih givin up transcripts. She off code!
All facts ain’t for everybody
Mzunga means what?
That's how colonisation started , they first send a Mzungu s to explore
Africa is one
Nope
She’s pretty
ZUNGEZA in zulu language south africa means to going round and round in the same place/sport
Zungu=Dzungu in Shona. Murungu=muzungu
Murungu ane dzungu 😂
Zambia we say umusungu
They were wrong ,,he was not confused but had set up a camp,,,,
Looking for the source of the Nile on an island in the ocean seems naive!
In Zambia my Country, we call them Muzungu too.
In south Africa we call white people "Mlungu* it's almost the same as Mzungu😂
This sounds similar to why people refer to the police as the “fuzz”.
Here in South Africa the Zulu tribe calls them Mlungu
Thanks 👍👍
In my language Shona,the word dzungu means dizzy,so a person who suffers from dizziness is called Mudzungu! Shona is a Bantu language so it has similarities with Swahili.
In Kiswahili, dizziness is kizunguzungu