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261 Glossary Terms are Swahili unless otherwise noted; plurals are noted if different or conventionally used in plural form. aibu shame, dishonor akida (pl. maadika)  subaltern in German and early British direct rule structures asili ancestry, origins; essence askari African soldier baraza public meeting with didactic purpose chama (pl. vyama) association, party chotara (pl. machotara) mixed-race person daftari account book, ledger fujo (pl. mafujo) disorder; disturbance or riot golo [Gujarati] slave; black person hartal [Gujarati] closure of shops in political protest; commercial strike heshima honor, respect kabila (pl. makabila) tribe, nation, group kabwela poor man, usually in reference to urban poor liwali (pl. maliwali)  governor; top “native authority” in colonial Dar es Salaam maendeleo (pl.) development makuti (pl.) thatched palm, used as roofing material mbegu seed; race or stock mgeni (pl. wageni) guest; foreigner mhindi (pl. wahindi) Indian mhuni (pl. wahuni) hooligan, criminal; unemployed male youth mshenzi (pl. washenzi) barbarian or savage; uncivilized mwafrika (pl. waafrika) African mwananchi (pl. wananchi) citizen (colloquial); “child of the land” mwenyeji (pl. wenyeji) native mzungu (pl. wazungu) European; white person 262 w Glossary naizi  successful African civil servant or businessman in 1960s nchi country, land ndugu brother, sibling; in socialist years, “comrade” ngoma dance, drum, public performance ote dugu moja  poorly spoken, “Indianized” version of “wote undugu mmoja” or “we are all one family,” a nationalist phrase pazi (pl. mapazi) chief; term used by Zaramo people raia citizen (formal) shairi (pl. mashairi) genre of Swahili poetic verse taifa (pl. mataifa) nation, race tamaa desire; lust Uhindini  Indian area; in colonial Dar es Salaam, colloquial term for the zoned “commercial” area or Zone II uhuru freedom; independence ujamaa “familyhood”; African socialism unyonyaji exploitation; literally “sucking” ustaarabu civilization; state of being civilized Uswahilini  African area; in colonial Dar es Salaam, colloquial term for the zoned “native” area or Zone III Uzunguni  European area; in colonial Dar es Salaam, colloquial term for the zoned “residential” area or Zone I watu wa kuja (pl.) immigrants; literally “people who came [later]” wenye mji (pl.) original inhabitants; literally “owners of the town” ...

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