[Lexicog] Prototypical "white"

[Michael Cahill]

Konni speakers (northern Ghana) call Caucasians "nasara". This comes
originally from Arabic and means, as I understand it, something like
"foreigner." Ironically, if an Arab showed up in Konni-land, he would be
labeled "nasara"!

Mike Cahill



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