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To my dearest and best Kaka

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To my best and dearst kaka. You have always made me laugh when I was angry. You always made me play the bad guy when we were kids. You made me be the 'bad student' when we played school, having to arrive late. You were kind enough to plan me a surprise party the day after my real party. You could get me to play games in the evening with the family. You could never tell if I was crying or laughing. You helped come up with the name of our childhood cat, Carseat. You are an amazing actor, friend, son and most of all you are my caca I mean kaka. Boy, ya gotta love the Swahili language. It says it all. So Christopher Reaves, you will always be my kaka. I love you!

Nyubani Sweet Nyubani, a story in Swahilish

The mtoto was very hungry. As she was near the mzungu 's nyuba she decided to look around and see what she could find to eat. She was grouchy when she wanted chakula . Off in the distance she saw a tree with tiny little embe 's, they were not even close to being ripe, then she climbed a another tree and founds some small, green pere that wasn't even close to being pink inside and she decided to not eat those either. Then she walked back in the ndizi plantation to see if there were any in the tree, alas there was only a few tiny green bunches. Not even a tumbili would want them. Suddenly the mvoa started to fall and she ran for cover. While in the cover a paka rubbed against her legs and she decided to find chakula at nyuba . As she walked away the mzungo yelled after her, " Una kwenda wapi ?" and she replied, " Na kwenda nyubani to eat". The mzungu replied with a smile, "Come back kesho and I'll have a chungwa for you". So the ...