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Sheng is now my keja’s official lingo

 

By Joseph Maina

To most parents and teachers, Sheng is one of the worst plagues that ever befell this land. It is a bastardisation of Swahili and English, characterised by a criminal abuse of words, with a peppering of local vernacular tongues.

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