According to the snippet below, it was the muslims who first used the derogatory terms towards the Africans....well I never!
"Kaffir" is thought to ultimately derive from the Arabic kafir, meaning infidel, though the mechanism by which it came to be applied to the lime is uncertain. Following the takeover of the Swahili coast,
Muslims used the term to refer to the non-Muslim indigenous Africans, who were increasingly abducted for the Indian Ocean slave trade, which reached a height in the fift.eenth and sixt.eenth century
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According to the snippet below, it was the muslims who first used the derogatory terms towards the Africans....well I never!
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