manamban.
/məˈnambə/, U.S. /məˈnæmbə/, East African English /maˈnamba/ Kenyan English and Tanzanian English.
1. An indentured labourer or low-paid manual worker, esp. a migrant worker on a sisal plantation; (with plural agreement) such people collectively. Also used as a modifier, as in manamba system, manamba work, etc.
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1959 Council Deb.: Official Rep. (Tanganyika Legislative Council) 34 108 These people move from Mozambique..and they meet recruiting agents who get £1 per head of Manamba from the recruiting organization... It is also a common sight..to find Manamba men, women and children carrying heavy loads on their heads..to their places of employment or camps.
1973 G. S. Haule in J. Iliffe Mod. Tanzanians viii. 161 He travelled to Tanga in the same year [sc. 1919] together with a group of manamba who included Karlo, his cousin.
2014 Citizen (Tanzania) (Nexis) 25 May ‘I came to Tanzania from Burundi in 1958 to work as a manamba’..says Yakobo employed as a sisal cutter at Pangawe Sisal Estate.
2. Esp. in Kenya: a person employed by a bus company or driver to solicit passengers and take their fares.
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1979 Kenya Gaz. 14 Dec. 1584/2 Passenger directors for matatus and buses (Manamba).
1998 Bull. Internat. Comm. Urgent Anthropol. & Ethnol. Res. (UNESCO) 128 These are passenger public minibuses which consists of a driver and his tout which is usually known as a manamba.
2019 B. Kahora in Cape Cod Bicycle War (2020) (Electronic ed.) The manamba said that we would have to pay double if we did not share the seat with a third person.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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