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Tao sabini Tao sabini! Wanne iende! Wanne ijae! Apana chelewa kazi!

Those are the words that I used to wake up to when I lived in Ummoja One. It was always like an alarm clock that told you time to get your ass out of bed and start getting ready for work or whatever it is that you would be waking up to. The bus stage was as noisy as you can imagine with Matatus trying to outdo each other on the…

11 Sheng Words Every Nairobian Should Know

Nairobi is the undisputed Sheng capital of the region, and this may place some residents with little understanding of it at a disadvantage. (Unless they’re watching Sheng Talk – Kama Kawa)

Learning Sheng can be quite the challenge because like all other languages (and perhaps more than most), it is evolving and adopting new words at a break-neck pace.

Being a very young language, it is heavily…

  You are no stranger to this situation if you use public transport as much as I do (my car is still being serviced… at the showroom… somewhere in Africa).I like the window seat. Not so much that you’d notice. Alright, let me rephrase that. I don’t mind the window seat. Especially when events happen exactly like this: Your eyes behold… No wait, this is my story, my eyes behold her. She is…