Toubab
Sign in to savethumb | 220x124px | right | A tourist depicted amongst other kinds of peopleToubab (alternatively Toubabou or Toubob) is a West African name for a person of European descent ("whites"). Used most frequently in The Gambia, Senegal, Guinea, and Mali, and also in Ivory Coast. The word can also be applied to any perceived traveler, usually only those with a different phenotype, up to foreign-raised locals (thus with a different accent) or visiting expatriates.
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thumb | 220x124px | right | A tourist depicted amongst other kinds of peopleToubab (alternatively Toubabou or Toubob) is a West African name for a person of European descent ("whites"). Used most frequently in The Gambia, Senegal, Guinea, and Mali, and also in Ivory Coast. The word can also be applied to any perceived traveler, usually only those with a different phenotype, up to foreign-raised locals (thus with a different accent) or visiting expatriates.
== Central and East Africa ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Toubab” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.