CAR Central African Republic: Fragile, failed and forlorn

[JMA]

As Stan will tell you, I can't pronounce English - or, at least, I have an "odd" accent ! So, perhaps, "mndele" would be a better way to write it - leaving the initial vowel sound up for grabs.

However, since it seems both of us are easily launched on insatiable quests for knowledge (not a bad thing), I've now looked at a couple of Lingala online translators - note that I was using the word in the plural ("a bunch of mindele" and "the mindele colonialists") - and here we go:

Ok then:

White man in local languages around here - South and east coast:

Umlungu – South Africa (isiZulu)
Mzungu – Malawi (ChiChewa) and Kenya (kiSwahili)
Murungu – Zimbabwe (ChiShona)
Lekgowa – Botswana (Tswana)