"the Africans"
Aside from the fact that the killer bees are obviously African killer bees, what was up with characters continually referencing them as "the Africans"? Was the label just a product of a time with less political correctness and/or ethnic sensitivity? Was there somehow some hidden socio-political agenda, perhaps a way of mocking Roots? (Yes, I know that that idea is a reach.)
I will say that the label may have proved more realistic than one might want to believe—in the sense that some folks may indeed have talked that way.
Of course, realism is not one of The Swarm's strengths, either.