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My English Swahili Sheng' expressive...

**I have an issue

One that weighs heavily upon my heart

One that, if left unchecked, threatens to tear our social moral fiber apart

An issue I will express in English, with some help from my old friend *Swahili

Hii imenisumbua akili, kwa hivyo kuiongelea ni kitu tunastahili

Hii story ya immorality tunaichukulia so so light

Dem akiji'expose kidogo mbele ya kamera haina mseo, tunampandisha cheo kwa society, all of a sudden ye ni socialite

The new cool, eti ‘good girl gone bad’

Hiyo njaro siyo polite*

We have a lot more to live for than that which we seem to be aware of

It’s not always about a good time, or lack thereof

Our reputation as a culture I believe is something we badly need to take care of

*Siyo game

Siyo Jokes

Si eti mambo na fame*

It shouldn’t just be about who drinks, who smokes, who vomits and who chokes

*Hiyo lifestyle siyo dope

Na siyo right*

Six hundred and seventy something ways to die… choose one

I refuse to go… speeding down a highway, drunk out of my mind, on another booz run

However, I may not exactly be the right person to point out how messed up you are

On a scale of one to ten?

I’m probably as guilty as you are

******

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Written by
nigel-obiya
Kenyan
Published
May 28, 2013
Lines·Words
24·219
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English... I speak it, I write it

Swahili... I'm proud of my heritage and culture, this language represents that and allows me to express my thoughts

Sheng'... It's slang, every culture has one, I can't help but speak and write it

Finally... I just did what I usually do, in more languages than one.

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