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Taking the Village out of the Villager
masukuma
#1 Posted : Wednesday, June 19, 2019 6:27:05 AM
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@Kiash... hizi tabia mumepeleka huko pia?
They say you can take a monkey out of a tree but not the tree out of the monkey.


Lazima watu wajue wanakwaza wengine.
All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
AlphDoti
#2 Posted : Wednesday, June 19, 2019 11:24:27 AM
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These are the tabias we condemn back home and now tribal people have shipped it abroad? I was not even happy to see the president tolerate presiding National event in vernacular language, shame!
hardwood
#3 Posted : Wednesday, June 19, 2019 11:28:01 AM
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So a kikuyu is not supported to speak his language, the language of his ancestors, anywhere in this world?
hamburglar
#4 Posted : Wednesday, June 19, 2019 12:22:00 PM
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We really really really really need to ban these stupid retrogressive mother tongue languages. They add zero value to our country and are one of the biggest reason for hate amongst Kenyans. I lived in the States for a long long time and the tribalism there is probably tenfold that in Kenya. It is unbelievably TOXIC. Around election times people stop talking to each other and in some extreme cases, form tribal groups that meet over the weekends at their fellow tribesmen houses to incite each other. Absolute takataka. Tribes and mother tongues are very primitive and people who insist of grouping themselves along tribal lines in a cosmopolitan setting are the worst. Then you see the same people complaining about racism in the West yet they were busy conducting a church service in their mother tongue on Sunday. You can’t comprehend the level of stupidity in some people. Complete bunch of morons.
Fullykenyan
#5 Posted : Wednesday, June 19, 2019 1:12:32 PM
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Outside Kenya , i strongly avoid Kenyans from Oshago. Their mindset, despite their academic achievements, are still very native.
when it comes to forming friendships,i prefer people born and brought up in Nairobi, Mombasa or even Nakuru.
The rest ni kichwa maji.
hardwood
#6 Posted : Wednesday, June 19, 2019 2:01:01 PM
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The Englishmen worship in their mothertongue English. The Frenchmen worship in their language French. Zuluman uses Zulu. Boer uses his language Afrikaans. Baganda uses luganda. So why should a kikuyuman not use his language gikuyu to worship his God. Why should a kikuyuman use the language of the alien englishmen or swahilimen to worship? All humans are born equal and none should impose their culture including language on others.
AlphDoti
#7 Posted : Wednesday, June 19, 2019 2:02:45 PM
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hardwood wrote:
The Englishmen worship in their mothertongue English. The Frenchmen worship in their language French. Zuluman uses Zulu. Boer uses his language Afrikaans. Baganda uses luganda. So why should a kikuyuman not use his language gikuyu to worship his God. Why should a kikuyuman use the language of the alien englishmen or swahilimen to worship? All humans are born equal and none should impose their culture including language on others.

Use Swahili for God's sake!
AlphDoti
#8 Posted : Wednesday, June 19, 2019 2:38:10 PM
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Ngalaka
#9 Posted : Wednesday, June 19, 2019 2:47:24 PM
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Use of mother tongue should only be an issue in public office or when addressing the general public where non speakers of the language are present and have a reasonable and legitimate expectation to be addressed in a language they understand.

If I start a church and designate it as a Kamba language church, - a Luo, Kalenjin, Pokomo etc would be misguided to pop in!

Again I don't see any problem in people choosing to keep their culture alive in distant lands.
Isuni yilu yi maa me muyo - ni Mbisuu
kawi254
#10 Posted : Wednesday, June 19, 2019 3:23:08 PM
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Ngalaka wrote:
Use of mother tongue should only be an issue in public office or when addressing the general public where non speakers of the language are present and have a reasonable and legitimate expectation to be addressed in a language they understand.

If I start a church and designate it as a Kamba language church, - a Luo, Kalenjin, Pokomo etc would be misguided to pop in!

Again I don't see any problem in people choosing to keep their culture alive in distant lands.


Growing up in Nairobi used to attend a PCEA church English service but midway it would switch to Kikuyu service
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