About a decade and a half ago or perhaps slightly more, when I came into contact with South Africans living and working in Kenya after the end of Apartheid, I would be faintly amused when they spoke of their country's seasons. I did not know the word then, as the book I got it from had not yet been published in the English language, but when they spoke of summer and winter I presumed they were suffering from what Ngugi wa Thiongo would refer to as "white-ache" in his book The Wizard of the Crow...
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