kwerekwere

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#1·15h ago

(South Africa) A foreign visitor to a township.

2000, Nigerian man, interviewed by Zaa Nkweta for Carte Blanche, “[https://web.archive.org/web/20061002050243/http://www.carteblanche.mnet.co.za/Display/Display.asp?Id=1559 Fighting a stereotype]”:

Origin: . Foreigners who came to the townships could not speak the local languages. One theory on the origin of this term is that their own languages sounded like kwirikwirikwiri to the locals. A more plausible theory is that this term was a corruption of the word "korekore". The Korekore are a sub-group of the Shona people in neighboring Zimbabwe. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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