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Let me tell you something: If you think Tanzanians know how to speak Kiswahili, you have not listened to the Peasant Farmer yet! The Peasant Farmer is adept in the Swahili language, so much so that he is an authentic guiji wa lugha. In fact, if the KBC programme ‘Kiswahili Tukitukuze’ was still on, the Peasant Farmer would have been one of the mabingwa wa lugha hosted on the show.
I tell you, the Peasant Farmer is so eloquent and knowledgeable in Kiswahili that, for free, he will tell you that the watermelon fruit is ‘tikitimaji’ in Kiswahili sanifu, and that pumpkin is ‘boga’, apple, ‘tofaa’ and avocado ‘parachichi. In fact, the Peasant Farmer will teach you without fees that ‘komamanga and ‘kungumanga’ are two different fruits: one the pomegranate and the other the nutmeg. But all this uguiji is beside the point, because, what matters is that in the course of his mastering Kiswahili, the Peasant Farmer came across a proverb that advises, ukiona mwenzio ananyolewa, wewe tia yako maji!
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