REPLY: English translation of "Mitumba"
Mel Page (PAGEM@ETSUARTS.EAST-TENN-ST.EDU)
Thu, 1 Jun 1995 08:21:31 GMT-5
Date sent: Wed, 31 May 1995
From: Bruce Moyer, Andrews University
<bcmoyer@andrews.edu>
For what it is worth, in Uganda the term for used clothing from the U.S.
means "dead people's clothing" because they cannot fathom living people
getting rid of it and giving it away.