Mzungu

Now, the way I eat a banana myself, I take off the skin, get the banana, and eat it, right? Yeah, cool, because I don't like the feel of the skin.

So now, secretly, the visitor, I mean the host, told Hillary, why does your wife, or your wife-to-be, eat like an uncivilized mzungu? Mzungu's a white person, right? And because the missionaries taught us when you eat a banana and you've got dirty hands, you peel a little bit, you eat a little bit, you peel it and you hold the skin, right? So now Hillary told me that.

So now learning that little cultural thing, I now, when I'm visiting, I do it the civilised way, right? But at home, I do it my way.

LAUGHTER Yes.

Well, when I went to Africa, I was not going to marry an African.

Not on this earth.

You know, there are a lot of Mzungu white people who go there and they want to get married.

Not me.

Yeah.

Is Mzungu said east or west? Home is best.

Where is our home? It's a praise you relaxed nine months without talking to anybody and you still came out without stress.

Yeah, no, you can just have it.

So like, no brainer.

Rocket stoves, right? So I go and I build one for them, which was amazing because I'd never seen a Mzungu get down in the mud.

Now, maybe I lost credibility thereby.

I don't know.

Okay,

okay.

For our listeners, a Mzungu is a traveler or somebody not from here, technically, for East Africa, most of East Africa, I think.

That's right.

And once the smoke cleared and things, and I was like, man, do you think they just saw the Mzungo turn up? And again, it was kind of a breaking the ice thing, Mzungo.

is um a derogatory term in in eastern africa which which refers to anyone who's of european descent um it's apparently derived from the word malungo which is swahili for the white scum that you find on the ocean so in theory where the white scum that came from the sea um but that's but i but so by calling myself do you think they saw the mizungo turn up and they laughed and then i went yeah welcome to the party And then they all like carry on going, yeah, welcome to the party, Mzungu.

when there was a dramatic change, and that was we heard them praying.

So we hear this loud Islamic call to prayer.

The same way it happened.

Bro, that's why I don't even believe the story of the Mzungu.

And we were told, "Oh, there was colonization." How? I don't believe that.

Because now I can see the nature of the Kikuyu, uh, the Kikuyus, because we are being led by our mothers.

Her name is Kila Koi.

This is her Maasai name and we call Muzungu.

So we are the Muzungu.

So the Muzungu name is Sarah.

And she was like around four or five and we had this instant connection.

I love this girl.

I would love to, without warning, blow the mind of an East African player in MLS speaking Swahili to his face and being like,

where did this Mzungo come from? How does he know my mother tongue?

Nice.

Anyways, Mark, we got a Rapids win on Saturday in a home game.

They even found his way out in the bush.

And he said, no, it's a Mzungu.

It's a white man.

Wow, I couldn't believe somebody just showed up.