African languages do not necessarily equate the colour white with what racialist assignations call "white" in European languages. While Tigrinya at times does - ts'Ada, but also ferenji - Ewe has no relation between "ĥê" (white) and "yovó" (light-skinned stranger).
Isaac SamuelEthnographers often assume that in Africa the colour white was interchangeable with the Western racial concept of “whiteness” But such inferences are based on an uncritical interpretation of historical data and project modern racial concepts into the past www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-white-...