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  • I've written about the topic of food chakula in kiswahili, meaning 'for eating' before - beans and farting, ugali, killing animals, etc.

    FOR EATING 2006

  • I've written about the topic of food chakula in kiswahili, meaning 'for eating' before - beans and farting, ugali, killing animals, etc.

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • Lakini jua: uko moyoni kwangu, na ninatembea jioni na mume na mtoto wangu, kuongea kiswahili na kuota Tanzania, na kupendana kabisa.

    mbona kitu kigumu sana jen 2008

  • I remembered him when I pulled weeds today in the garden that he built for me, and my kiswahili choked in my mouth this evening when I saw Mama Jamila standing alone outside her house wrapped entirely in black cloth.

    Archive 2007-02-01 jen 2007

  • I remembered him when I pulled weeds today in the garden that he built for me, and my kiswahili choked in my mouth this evening when I saw Mama Jamila standing alone outside her house wrapped entirely in black cloth.

    40 days jen 2007

  • People and animals, or "living locomotive things" as my kiswahili teacher would say, are in one noun class, the m/wa noun class.

    Archive 2008-09-01 laura b 2008

  • People and animals, or "living locomotive things" as my kiswahili teacher would say, are in one noun class, the m/wa noun class.

    things that matter laura b 2008

  • A peace plan called "Amani" (the kiswahili word for peace) was launched in January 2008 after a deal was signed in Goma, capital of

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Also see Fahamu Networks for Social Justice (fahamu is kiswahili for 'understanding' or 'consciousness').

    Women Left for Dead and the Man Who's Saving Them 2008

  • September kweli nakupenda rats and puppies remembering schools and hospitals siwezi kusema kiswahili, damnit ... this doesn't mean i'm a grown-up, does it?

    rats and puppies jen 2005

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