My brother named his cat "Simba" after the movie came out. I remember being in kindergarten and going to a Lion King themed birthday party where we danced around singing, "Hakuna Matata, what a wonderful phrase..." And my best friend and I used to tell each other "Asante sana, squash banana."
Little did I know that these are legitimate swahili words in that movie.
Rafiki = Friend
Simba= Lion
Hakuna Matata = No worries
Asante Sana = Thank you very much (So when translated, the phrase means "thank you very much squahed banana")
But I learned a new one yesterday.
Pumba. He is the loving, unintelligent, clumsy warthog. And his name says it all. Pumba is short for the swahili word Pumbavu which means "idiot"
Hmm. I have been calling that warthog an "idiot" since I was little. Oh Walt Disney.
