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etumba
e-TU-mba
war
French: la guerre
Etumba ezali mabe.
War is evil.
La guerre est un mal.
War — the sorrow a land knows too well. Etumba is war or battle. A heavy word in a region that has lived through conflict; "etumba ezali mabe" — war is evil — carries hard memory and a longing for peace.
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