From insults exchanged by children living in refugee camps near Luanda, Angola, between 2002 and 2003. “ ‘You Traded Your Mother for an Unripe Mango’: Playing with Insults in an Angolan Refugee Community,” by Andrew M. Guest, was published in the January/April issue of the Journal of Folklore Research. Translated from the Portuguese.

In the time of war, you traded your mother for two tins of sardines.
Your father used witchcraft to steal bread from children.
During the time of war, someone had your father in his pocket.
Your father made a doll…