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"Thanks bwana, I appreciate your cool head and forward thinking as well ..."
Today at 16: 59.20 (1 hour ago) umno must have got the inspiration for "ketuanan" from the Swahili term 'bwana' meaning— Planet Malaysia
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I had begun reading, and had all but forgotten his presence Jambo bwana (greeting, master)!"— African Camp Fires
On top of this the Union Parliament has passed a law making even the future purchase of land by Negroes illegal save in restricted areas 112] The traveler Glave writes in the Century Magazine (LIII, 913 Formerly [in the Congo Free State] an ordinary white man was merely called 'bwana' or 'Mzunga'; now the merest insect of a pale face earns the title of 'bwana Mkubwa' [big master 113] E.D. Morel, in the Nineteenth Century SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING There is no general history of the Negro race.— The Negro

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