Word: swahili
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Konglish words, spoken in Korea, are recognizable to native English speakers, though the meanings can be confusing: "Apart" is apartment; "interior" refers to interior design. Sheng, a youth-culture language spoken in Kenya, is a hybrid with Swahili. It is cool and cosmopolitan, so it is popular in the city. A typical exchange...
...three stands selling hundreds of tubes of creams for between $1.30 and $2.50, most of them imported from Europe. There's IKB Skin Litener Cream, which boasts that it is "extra strength" and can be found in "London, Lagos, Paris and New York." There's Princess, Kiss, Jaribu (Swahili for try) and one brand which, oddly, has a photo of a white woman...
...Mali's archaeological sites, including graves built into the cliffs along the World Heritage-listed Bandiagara escarpment, have been looted. Ethiopia is struggling to protect its oldest silver Coptic Christian crosses and medieval manuscripts. Since 1970, illegal traders in Kenya and Tanzania have carted off hundreds of vigango, or Swahili wooden grave markers. When fighting erupted in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in 1991, one of the first casualties was the National Museum. Within weeks many of its prized exhibits, including ancient Egyptian pottery, were on sale to tourists in neighboring Kenya...
...order to finance the Ngata Children's Home, Kariuki personally contributed to the costs of construction and to traditional community fund-raising events called harambees, Swahili for "pull together." He pays the monthly salaries for the 18 members of the home's management committee out of his pocket. Additional support comes from the community, which offered the land on which the home is built, as well as from local donors and the Kenyan Charity Sweepstakes. As much as 40% of the funding, however, comes from independent donors outside Kenya. Kariuki is directly involved in fund raising and is working...
...course the delay may be of some help to Joseph Kabila, since it'll give him time to bone up on his French in order to be able to address the nation whose presidency he's about to assume. Having been raised in Uganda speaking English and Swahili, Joseph Kabila is essentially a foreigner in a country where the national language is French and the most common indigenous tongue is Lingala. And that may be appropriate, since his power base is entirely foreign, too - the thousands of Zimbabwean and Angolan troops that took over the capital during the funeral...