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Kaffir (/ ˈ k æ f ər /), [1] is an exonym and an ethnic slur – the use of it in reference to black people being particularly common in South Africa and to some degree Namibia and the former Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) In Arabic, the word kāfir ("unbeliever") was originally applied to non-Muslims of any ethnic background before becoming predominantly focused on pagan zanj (black African) who ...
The main African Sri Lankans are known as Kaffirs. This term is not used as a racial pejorative as in other parts of the world. Some were originally Muslims, while others practiced African religions, but many have now converted to Catholicism and Buddhism. They speak a lyrical creole language with a mix of native Sinhalese and Tamil. [5]
Kaffir lime, a variety of lime fruit native to Indonesia also known as a makrut lime; Kaffir lily (disambiguation), one of two flowers found in southern Africa: Clivia miniata; Hesperantha coccinea; Kafir, kaffir or kaffircorn, another name for the grain sorghum; Kaffir boom (Erythrina lysistemon), a species of tree in the family Fabaceae
Kaffraria, Kaffiria, or Kaffirland, was the descriptive name given to the southeast part of what is today the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Kaffraria, i.e., the land of the Kaffirs , is no longer an official designation [ 2 ] (with the term kaffir , originally the Arabic term for a non-believer in Islam, now considered an offensive racial slur ...
The Color of Friendship is a 2000 biographical drama television film based on actual events about the friendship between two girls (Piper and Mahree), one from the United States and the other from apartheid South Africa, who learn about tolerance and racism.
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa is Mark Mathabane's 1986 autobiography about life under the South African apartheid regime. It focuses on the brutality of the apartheid system and how he escaped from it, and from the township Alexandra , to become a well-known tennis player.
British Kaffraria was a British colony/subordinate administrative entity in present-day South Africa, consisting of the districts now known as Qonce (King William's Town) and East London. It was also called Queen Adelaide's Province and, unofficially, British Kaffiria and Kaffirland.
Robert Bathurst (born 1957), British actor born in Ghana; Michael Blackson [13] (born 1972), comedian and actor; Kwesi Boakye (born 1999) [14]; King Aboagye Brenya (1938/39–2021) [15]