Definition of bwana in US English:

noun

• (in East Africa) a boss or master (often used as a title or form of address)

  ‘he can't hear you, bwana’

  More example sentences

  • ‘"Yes, Bwana," came the voice from the hallway, followed by a perspiring black man in a loose white shirt, loose white pants, and a pair of cracked plastic shoes - which made him one of the richer men of his village ten miles up the Busati.’
  • ‘Yes, he knew the animals in the valley were being killed so fast none would be left, just as the bwana said.’
  • ‘The only difference now is that instead of white bwanas there are dark-skinned leeches from our own villages.’
  • ‘‘Do not go, Bwana,’ he said.’
  • ‘It has often been suggested that Livingstone was only successful when he was leading Africans who saw him as their bwana.’