For the anecdote, bamboula is originally the name of a kind of drum and of a dance. I think it’s super sad that we took a piece of some people’s art and culture and turned it into a heinous slur. Not that it’s the most horrible thing about the whole colonisation business, but still.
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ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 19 hours agoIn 1994, the biscuit brand Biscuiterie Saint-Michel and the safari park opened the village, naming it “Bamboula’s Village” after its “Bamboula” chocolate biscuits, which had a black person with the same name as their mascot. The name of the biscuits was a racial slur, dating from colonial times.
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one_old_coder@piefed.social 17 hours ago
I forgot that part. Bamboula was the equivalent of the n-word in the 80s. Those biscuits were sold in supermarkets, and they made TV ads and other stuff. Fun times…