Assagai

[Julian]

african throwing spear, seen in almost every film about africa shot during the years of colonial rule, usually in the hands of some bloodthirsty savages, theres about a thousand of em in [Zulu] (1964).

originates from the [Berber]: zaġāya, Old French: azagaie, [Old Spanish]: azagaya, Arabic: az-zaġāyah.

The assagai was also one of the teams in wip3out, easily the coolest in the game, a real quick and agile little ship, but had crappy shields so it would often explode.

assagai also refers to a south african prog-rock band active in the 1970s, they did this song [cocoa], its quite nice.