"Bye Mzungu Bye" is a term we've heard countless times mostly from the mouths of children who usually jump and wave madly while singing the words with huge smiles on their faces eager in anticipation for us to respond. Mzungu is a swahili word that means white person. It is not derogatory in nature and is used simply to describe a a white person either male or female. We can't quite work out why the children say "bye" and not "hi", maybe one day we'll figure that one out!
Today as we made our way across town battling the pre Christmas traffic and the heat of the midday sun, our eyes fell upon some graffiti that made us laugh.
We'd be interested to know what the artist was thinking when he painted this and if he truly thinks this is representative of mzungus in general. One can hope it depicts only the one's he's met!
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