Offensive term to be replaced as first step towards more changes in unprecedented reform of nomenclature rules
The effect of the vote will be that all plants, fungi and algae names that contain the word caffra, which originates in insults made against Black people, will be replaced by the word affra to denote their African origins.
That is hardly an improvement. "Africa" itself is a Eurocentric term as we have explained countless times. "Affra" (also why 2 "f"s?) would only be a non-offensive name if the plant originated in the red area:
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