Catchword: unbwogable

Filed under: English, Kenya

Part of speech: adj.

Quotation: If you were in Kenya during the elections you would certainly have discovered that Kenyan Swahili got a new word into the vocabulary: “unbwogable.” The rap song “Can you bwogo me?” by the Luo rappers Gidigidi-MajiMaji was widely used in the NARC campaigns to get the message out. “Bwogo” is a Dohluo word that means “to scare,” and hence “unbwogable” translates to unscarable or unshakeable.

Article or document title:
“Unbwogable—A report from Kenya” (URL)

Author:
Gunnar Rønning

Article, document, publication, web site:
Usenet: soc.culture.african

Date of publication:
Jan. 31, 2003

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