bomboy

plural bomboys

1. historicalA native supervisor of native laborers in colonial Africa.

   Two Bomboys to take care [while] six Labourers work in the Garden and the Stockyard. Cudjoe, the Slaves' Bomboy went with ten Women to cut & carry Wood.

   a. 1980, quoted in A. van Dantzig, Forts and Castles of Ghana, 1980 (page 83)

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   Quey and his fellow company men’s official duties included meeting Badu and his men weekly to go over the inventory, overseeing the bomboys who loaded the canoes with cargo, and updating the Castle’s governor with news of Badu’s other trade partners.

   b. 2016, in Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, (chapter "Quey", page 62)