posho

noun East African

corn meal
payment of workers in foodstuffs rather than money

Word Origin for posho

from Swahili

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Contemporary Examples of posho

One winter night, Posho Wembore sneaked into the exclusive whites-only club of the Hotel Pourquoi Pas?
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis
Nina Strochlic
November 23, 2014