wah-wah n.— «Going into Wah-Wah, the pungent and poignant memoir from actor Richard E. Grant about coming of age in colonial Swaziland, you might assume that the title is a Bantu word. It’s of American coinage and refers to the huffy...
homegoing n.— «He said that in the many black churches he had visited he had heard funerals referred to as “homegoings.”» —“In a Sprawling Memoir, Clinton Cites Storms and Settles Scores” by John M...
hikoi n.— «Macdonald, whose memoir ends with a compelling account of the hikoi, the great protest march of Maoris to Waitangi in 1984, has a similar view.» —“Land Long Under a Cloud” by Spiro Zavis Sydney Morning...