A new petition asked Disney to stop using the term of HakunaMatata

News24xx.com -  A petition asking Disney to stop using the term of 'HakunaMatata' which was popular through the animated film The Lion King.

In Swahili, the phrase means 'no trouble' or everything will be fine. 

The same term was used as the accompanying song title for The Lion King which was released in 1994.

In the same year, Disney tried to patent the phrase 'HakunaMatata' with the aim of stopping unauthorized merchandise production. 

From reporting of NME, the application was approved in 2003 and is still valid today.

A Zimbabwean activist, Shelton Mpala launched a petition against the Disney act, calling the action of the big company a 'colonization and robbery'.

"I equate this [Disney action] such as occupation and robbery, the act of seizure of things you have no right to. Imagine, if we go to take that route, we owe royalties to anyone who speaks English, or French if we speak French,"Mpala wrote.

"Join us and say NO to DISNEY or companies or individuals who use languages, terms and phrases that they don't find themselves. HakunaMatata is a Swahili phrase from East Africa. It means there is no problem ['no trouble']. The word 'hakuna' means 'nothing', while 'matata' means 'problem'."

 

 

 

 

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