I love to talk. I talk a lot. I have been called a chatter-box by more than one family member. Anyone who went to school in Kenya is familiar with the noisemakers list; a list of the names of any student who dared to speak in class while the teacher was out of […]
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Growing up and living as a Kenyan abroad you get accustomed to people asking the most ridiculous questions about your country of origin. I have on one occasion been asked if I know someone called John, because apparently John was in Kenya. No hang on, John was in Ghana but what does it matter? […]
For most people in Abuja the sign below is nothing more than one of Abuja’s many street signs. For me (and indeed anyone else who speaks Kiswahili) two of the places mentioned instantly stand out:
Nyanya is the Kiswahili word for grandmother and tomato ( I have never known why the two share the same […]
I don’t really want to be transformed into a four legged braying work animal but I have recently learned that there is Hausa phrase for foreigners who are fluent in Hausa; this being, “Ya iya Hausa kamar jakin Kano” which literatly translates to “he speaks Hausa like a Kano donkey.” Owing to the fact […]
I am blogging from the beautiful capital of Nigeria, Abuja, which shall be my home for the next 12 months.
My internet access at the moment, while being 100% free and 100% unlimited is also 100% unreliable. Hopefully that will change very soon as there is so much I want to blog about.
So far everyone I […]