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Swahili
Etymology
From u- + -shenzi.
Noun
ushenzi class XI (no plural)
- savagery, barbarity
Further reading
- Eastman, Carol M. (1994) “Service, slavery ('utumwa') and Swahili social reality”, in Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, volume 37, pages 87-107