SWAHILI: Nenda
kutomba... Nakata tatu. ‡
SWAHILI: Asiyeweza
kunya portini hana uhuru dunaiani... ‡‡
‡)
“[Go] Fuck Yourself... In triplicate.” — Swahili enconium, found at times on
lavaloo walls ;
‡‡) “He
who cannot shit in the woods have no freedom on earth...” / “Those who
can’t shit in the veldt have no earthly freedom.”
— Swahili proverb [& per J. B. Rubin, in 12th.
St. no. 3, a sign on a Kenyan lavaloo wall...]
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